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As the title says. I'm so mad at myself and it's spilling into my work. I have bursts of creativity and then months long dry spells where NOTHING I write...umm, "flows"? So I get depressed, stop writing and start reading again - newspapers, books, books on writing, etc - hoping for...

Thank you for the information. I don't use Excel so I wasn't aware this was a function of the software. Although...^^^^ you gave me some dates to use!

I am trying to find a year in the years of 1975 - 1985 where April Fool's Day arrived on a Saturday day or a Sunday day. An adult is going to trick a child into pranking her parents by "pretending" to run away and she ends up abducted. I know HOW the kidnapper gets away and remains...

I just finished reading "OCD Daniel" by Wesley King and I'm taking a deeper dive into his works. He's a Canadian youth fiction writer. I really like the way he treats mental health issues and the sensitive topics that develop.

https://thewalrus.ca/the-publishing-industry-has-a-gambling-problem/ This is an interesting read. It may influence some of the submissions y'all make to various publishers and agents.

Not sure if this is allowed, and if so, where it fits? I subscribe to a few online magazines and I get e-mails from them every so often. I'm noticing a trend now that one of them keeps advertising for people - "Do you love to write? Consider writing for us!" I doubt it pays a lot, but it...

Honorary niece? I know someone wrote a time off request to attend the funeral of a honorary uncle, not a blood relation but close friends with her parents, thus "uncle." My first thought was actually "adopted" - there are unofficial adoptions and formal adoptions. I'm thinking where a parent...

This is a video of Lars Andersen shooting off arrows from a bow, historically accurate. It might help some people who want to write an archer character or an arrow barrage fired from a mass of archers. I'm quite amazed at the skill.

What does "parcooked" mean? I assume that a dish that takes 30 minutes in a 375 oven is prepped ahead of time but I always thought that restaurants were faster because they used industrial strength ovens and they could shave the cooking time down by cooking at a higher heat than my residential...

I am curious....HOW realistic are shows like Gordon Ramsay's "Hell's Kitchen" and "Kitchen Nightmares"? Like you said, "that takes 36 hours to prepare!" and the chefs in "Hell's Kitchen" are able to serve it in 5, 10 minutes?!?!?!?!? Some of it has to be prepped ahead of time, maybe sitting...

A.C. Crispin has a couple of books where a deaf character is communicating with hearing aliens: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1560606 https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/231443/ambassador-to-bird-like-race-she-communicates-via-sign-language Most signed languages I am familiar with...

I'd say people not well off probably have more than one credit card. It's how they fund their lives. They'll run one up, making only minimum payments then do a balance transfer (interest free) of the balance to a new card, run the original up again while making minimum payments on each, then...

This place might have a book or be able to answer your query: https://store.themeateater.com/?srsltid=AfmBOopcc0yEIcZLubBsda1L_e33OfkpPzIKYkGR9Am7vL159eH3tDVW It's also a tv and podcast series. Almost TOO much information maybe? https://www.themeateater.com/

I really overdo this, but I am a visual thinker and I like to have detailed sketch of layouts when I write scenes. It ALWAYS takes me out of the story if I was to read something like, "he walked into the noisy bar and took a seat." ????? So, the car's noisy (WHY???), and he sat down...

There's also the NEED to fix stuff that breaks because no new stuff is coming in.....think Cuba and how the USA has had an embargo on them since the Cuban missile crisis. Take a look at the tv program, "the Island Diaries" about Cuba and look at the vehicles. All of those vehicles would be in...