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Best Markey Quote...

2026-04-18T20:53:19Z

From last night's virtual fundraiser."If you kicked{Trump} in the heart, you'd break your toe. Him and all his billionaire buddies."
This is probably aided by the fact that I find the way old guys from MA say "heart" to be amusing, thanks to the family Kennedy fixation, but it was on-target too, I think.

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Finished My Haunted House Reading Group...

2025-11-13T00:18:55Z

It was nice, but somehow not what I was looking for, either. Worth a shot, though--writers have to expand our wheelhouses for what we read and I read this Argentinian short story collection earlier this year. I did get a story idea out of it I guess. But I wish there were something out there that would use...well, maybe All of My Things is dramatic, but maybe More of My Things makes sense.
Some part of me always feels as if it twiddles its thumbs.

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It's still kind of goody-goody...

2025-10-28T19:47:30Z

and therefore not what the doctor(or Dan Savage, for instance) might have ordered--me over a notebook is novel like a thing that is not, clearly, no *transgressions* there, but the haunted house fiction class was a little bit better last night...

It would be a little better to watch us form into a group if there were more than two more sessions. Not that I exactly want to ponder a genre I don't really have a feel for every Monday night forever and ever, amen. But I am taking a shot and even living with not being the star in a way my fifteen-year-old self might not believe, so that is a tiny shoot of growth, even if it might not be worth the price of this thing.(Maybe the plot bunny about a haunted mall might be if I wrote it, not sure if I will. It's often hard to read a lot and write a lot at the same time, but I jotted thoughts down anyway.
Probably not taking Anne Elliot's class next month, as it is more expensive and I think I need to give extra Zoom a rest after this. But I will e-mail her if I ever get a pub date for Wedded Twist, short version. She's a great instructor/workshop leader and took a flattering interest.

(Nice smart people, nobody I even imagined sending a flirty comment to at a moment when I might imagine chemistry with damn near anybody...but it's probably okay because the closest person is in L.A. or Orange County or something and even if he were pine-worthy,(Nope, gay in a way that's easy to spot. Smart, though. Thorough reader in a way I've never quite mastered.) I think I have "Long-Distance Yearnings" fully covered anyway.

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Reading my work aloud last night...

2025-10-14T19:40:37Z

really did help me spot some trouble spots so the virtual group is worth it, two sessions in, even if they start late all the time and aren't, like, The Answer or anything like that. (Not that I really thought that would happen, and I'm only aware I have the hope, down deep, because of that little deflation when it doesn't happen. Again.) It would be so *easy* if I could find something that would make me WANT to crank away in this little corner again and I'm trying my hardest to pretend this is true, but, meh.

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Another writing workshop...

2024-10-27T21:29:07Z

13 women this time, on journalling and found objects. We had someone from London and from Canada--I'm the designated desert dweller, as I usually am when culturally-elitist activities are afoot.(Writing for this one might be a little more challenging than just showing off something that I've already done. Not sure what I can do yet. I try every day, but the *other* job I don't get paid for is claiming beaucoup real estate... maybe I am breaking pattern a bit after all.) Even if I can't do something hot, like salsa-dancing lessons. But then my grandma got seriously fleeced by dance instructors who were definitely money-grubbing and probably gay, so maybe that is not a sexy thought anyway.
Probably should finish J.'s phone list tonight, although, like most things undertaken for the hometown crowd? Not that successful.

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