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Writer. Fiction in Literally Stories, Five on the Fifth, In Another Time, etc. Typewriters, writing communities, cats, photography, and hiking Member of AWP, NHWP, Pen Parentis https://forgottennewengland.com/portfolio/published-short-fiction/
Inspiration doesn’t strike. It lingers. It waits for you to stop dismissing the ordinary.
What’s the most ordinary thing you wrote about recently?
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A chapter can live forever during the editing process.
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Words, spoken to paper, will not wander lost.
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“In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.”
Octavia E. Butler
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Coffee’s brewing. Bring ideas.
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The ink dries into these pages, breathing like woods before a frost. #5amwritersclub
Writing in Fall
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Even falling leaves can become story.
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Good morning, #5amwritersclub! From 4,700 words to 10,000! I’m glad I listened to my critique group. #writingcommunity #amwriting
To whatever comes next in this story.
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Through ink, the commonplace startles.
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If each sentence brings an inch of change, enough of them, together, can move the world.
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I go to the woods not to live deliberately, but to write where silence outpaces the feed.
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“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years
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"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." Confucius
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All those ideas for new short stories as I press on to finish this third draft of a novel
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I got an acceptance for a flash fiction piece yesterday! Publishing later this month!
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A vintage fan next to a novel as the sunlight streams in.
Holding onto summer while I edit drafts.
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I think I like the Underwood 3-bank more than the Corona.
Getting through that third draft feels like…
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Ink ribbon ghosts, inspiration for this morning’s writing session.
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Night edits stutter.
At Mount Washington,
a typewriter, still.
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So close. I’ve found a bit of an acceptance drought lately so I’ll celebrate a “good rejection” today.
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My new flash fiction piece published today in Scrawl Place!
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scrawlplace.com/2025/08/19/v...
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
Anne Lamott
Sometimes there’s real value in coming back to a draft after some time away.
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Where will the words take you today?
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Editing. Back at it.
(Does it ever end?)
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“You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.”
John Irving
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Building worlds.
Writing
Editing
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With each dawn comes a new chance to do something great.
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