It’s one of the Laws of Library Physics, that more than 1 book will be available at the same time no matter how long you’ve been waiting. 📚

🤨

I had a woman say after I’d done a poetry reading that she couldn’t believe I had written the poem I just read and (with tears in her eyes) she really couldn’t believe I read it aloud in public! I touched her shoulder and said: “That’s why.”

Examine your feelings and be honest with joy and pain.

🤣👍

I thought NaNoWriMo shut down? Is there an alternate site or a happening? I’ve been mourning the loss of it.

Sounds good. How often do you think about taking out the trash as something to celebrate? 😄

A very important truth. 😁

Interesting. I’ve never heard of that either. It does make you wonder. 🤔

💙 RIP

I’m not surprised you can’t sleep. Geez. ☹️

I published/edited a small press magazine years ago when I worked in an academic library. A coworker sent me a short story. I rejected it. He confronted me angrily. I explained why I rejected it (again) and he said he would send it to a ‘real’ magazine. It didn’t sell.

As a writer I can take this two ways, the first being 😮 that after all that work you read it incredibly FAST! But the other reaction is—it was so great/exciting/unputdownable ☺️ that you read it incredibly FAST! 😁