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Writer's Block

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A question that comes up from time to time is "How do you deal with writer's block" or some variation like "Is writer's block real?" Writer's block is a very real phenomenon. It is basically writing to the end of your conscious stream for a story, and it can be very daunting and frustrating to overcome. I have set on a particular writing project for months trying to figure out where to go next. So how do you deal with it? How do you as the Doors would say "Break on through to the other side?" The best advice I have come upon regarding combating writer's block, is from Ernest Hemingway. His advice to a young apprentice, Arnold Samuelson as quoted in Samuelson's book, With Hemingway: A Year in Key West. "The most important thing I’ve learned about writing is never write too much at a time… Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yours

Coffee Giveaway

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I'm giving away a $10 Starbucks gift card. Sign up before midnight May 18, 2020. Sign Up HERE

Book Giveaway!

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Want a FREE copy of Shaken Awake: The Complete Trilogy ? Here's your chance! I'm giving away FIFTY copies at GoodReads! https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/307008-shaken-awake-the-complete-trilogy Don't wait, the giveaway ends May 30, 2020!

Shaken Awake: The Complete Trilogy - Behind the Story

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On Tuesday, January 7, 2014, I walked into my office on the 5th floor of Colony Square (14th and Peachtree ST, Atlanta). I sipped the tall blonde coffee that I had grabbed at the Starbucks at the base of the building and read the headlines on the Atlanta Journal Constitution app on my phone. I was shocked to read that a a 70-year-old homeless man, Charlie Perkins, was been found dead just a few blocks from where I was sitting. He had frozen to death sleeping on the street. The news rattled my soul. I looked out the window of my office at all the high rise apartment and office buildings a strong contrast of wealth and the poverty of the homeless just below them. I thought about the man in the army coat and thick military issued black framed glasses that I had just spoken to in the Starbucks as I did every morning. A man who I recognized was homeless. I thought about the older homeless woman who sat in the food court just outside the folding gate to Chick-Fil-A waiting for it to open