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Just read this passage from “Mrs Death Misses Death” by @salenagodden and I may have a new mantra for creating art.
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In this month’s LOW NOTES, I compare my love for used CDs with my current WIP. Read and subscribe, peoples.
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In this month's LOW NOTES, I got shoved into the AI machine and something else came out. Read and subscribe, peoples.
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In this month’s LOW NOTES, I found the perfect place to less my more. It’s in Houston, Texas.
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In this month's LOW NOTES, I try to apply a year of "Less is More" to my writing desk, and it doesn't go well.
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First VDP of 2026 is tomorrow, building MOMENTUM for the rest of the year.
Plus... first details about the annual Journey to Jupiter in-person writing retreat.
You KNOW you want to be there... so be there.
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Virtual Donut Parties are back for '26, starting this Friday 1/9 at 5am ET via Zoom.
How to build MOMENTUM for a successful year
-Repetition
-Asking little & big questions of your work
-Measuring Success
-Celebrating without Slowing Down
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Virtual Donut Parties are back for '26, starting this Friday 1/9 at 5am ET via Zoom.
How to build MOMENTUM for a successful year
-Repetition
-Asking little & big questions of your work
-Measuring Success
-Celebrating without Slowing Down
#5amWritersClub
DM for the new link
🧠More.
♥️Less.
✋🏻Some?
🧠It needs more.
♥️But not with unnecessary fluff. Move on.
✋🏻Gimme something, please.
🧠We haven't fully told the story. We've barely filled the scene.
♥️The reader understands. We shouldn't be working this hard!
✋🏻Kinda like this post?
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🧠I'm so tired. Not sleepy tired, but so... ugh.
♥️I get it. You wanna write?
🧠Yeah, but... its easier to not bother.
♥️That's no fun. Writing is fun.
🧠Yeah, but–
♥️Hey... don't ever forget: Writing is fun. Doesn't have to be anything else.
🧠 😀
✋🏻Game on!
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♥️The holiday concerts are over.
🧠Halleluyah!
♥️Time to finish with the gifts.
🧠Crap!
♥️But we get to write first.
🧠Halleluyah!
♥️Time to finish that synopsis.
🧠AW CRAP!
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🧠It's synopsis time.
♥️I believe in you.
✋🏻Good luck.
🧠The heroine... The night was...
♥️Take your time.
✋🏻You know the story, right?
🧠On a dark desert highway...
♥️That's not–
✋🏻Oh lord.🤦🏻
🧠Who's the MC again?
♥️This may take a while.
✋🏻I'll make more tea.
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🧠Its go-time.
♥️Hold on... a few more journal thoughts...
✋🏻We'll be with you in a sec.
🧠... Now?
♥️...
🧠Now??
♥️...
🧠Now???
♥️If you don't mind, I need to SCREAM INTO THE VOID AND CAN'T START THE CREATIVE PART TILL I'M DONE, OK?
🧠Damn.
✋🏻Told you.
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I predict there's going to be a ton of frustrated Wordle players today.
Anyhoo, anyone seen my focus? It was here yesterday.
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♥️You really need to finish holliday shopping.
🧠What would my MC want for Christmas?
♥️Most of the good stuff is gone.
🧠Are there any gifts in Chapter 6 of my WIP?
♥️You're running out of time.
🧠Time is a plot problem.
♥️Oy, you're your own plot problem.
🤦🏻🎄
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👀Hey! This best-selling book is like the one we're writing.
🧠Wut?
👀Sweet! It's got scenes just like the ones we wrote.
🧠Come again?
👀Wow. That cool idea we loved... they wrote it much better.
🧠<cry, panic, anger, cry>
♥️It'll be ok.
✋🏻<opens new document>
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🧠'26 will have big plans, big changes, BIG GOALS!
♥️What about today?
🧠Let's survive today, ok?
♥️Will we be a different person on 1/1?
🧠Same, but new, cool direction.
♥️So, why wait?
🧠Shut up. '26 is our year.
♥️What about today?
✋🏻Today we edit or die!!!
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♥️Please don't look at the news. Let's just write, okay?
🧠It's incomprehensible.
👀We can handle it.
♥️No... yesterday was awful. Please don't.
🧠C'mon, just a few hours of creative work first.
✋🏻<click>
👀... Holy shit...
💔
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🧠What's all this noise?
👂🏻Her name is Mariah Carey.
🧠Is she in our book about the Mississippi Blues?
👂🏻No, she sang this Christmas song called–
🧠I KNOW THE SONG! What's it doing here?
👂🏻Living rent free.
🧠Get her out!
🪗Can I help?
🧠It would be a 🎄 miracle!
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👃🏻<snore>
🧠Wha? Who woke me?
👃🏻Did you say something?
🧠Dammit. It's too early.
👃🏻My bad... but don't you get up early to write?
🧠Yeah, but...
👃🏻Well, there you go.
🧠You're not helping.
👃🏻All I'm saying is...
🧠Shut up. ☝🏻👃🏻
✋🏻Uh, we can't type like this.
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🧠How nice, yesterday's unresolved plot problem is still there.
♥️You know what the MC aims to accomplish. Follow your gut.
🧠So many mediocre choices in front of the MC. I'm stuck and uninspired.
✋🏻Hey, what does this DEL button do?
🧠OK, OK, I'LL MAKE A CHOICE.
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👀Ooh, click that.
✋🏻No.
👀That news item will incense us. Clicky!
✋🏻No dice. We have work to–
🧠What's going on here?
👀...
🧠<processes dumbass news story> We must wake and prep for the day and you want to read this crap?
✋🏻I tried to–
🧠Back to the WIP, now!
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