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Writers - Never Throw Anything Away This is to protect yourself. Ideas are like fine wine, they need time to ripen and mature to full value. In this day and age of inexpensive RAM for computers, dirt cheap hard drives, and dirt cheap CD backup, no other writing activity is as important as the backup of files. Even your deletions in the editing process, don’t just toss your ideas off into the never-never land of the Ether; instead copy and paste them to a file called- - “Editing snippets from (- - - - - -)”. I Do My Writing in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot I do my writing in the Wal-Mart parking lot. My wife likes to shop, I’d really - - -rather not. She’ll stay inside ‘til she’s ready to drop. I sit in the car, watchin’ the folks come ‘n go, the flow never stops. Hard Tack, Old Charlie, Jake, and Me Just Old Charlie, Jake, ten cut-plug chaw, eighty dry beans, a hard-headed herd of long-horn cattle, and me. Two gallons of raw, red-eye whiskey. One for snakebite, and one for cutting’ the dust. Water can be hard to find, and firewood’s mighty scarce on the short grass prairie. Spring’s wild flower carpets and Fall bottom colors are a cowboy’s delight. The sun’s fire hot come Summer, and in Winter it is not. Writer’s Cramp and the Future Writer’s cramp, block, or an onset of fear of writing happens to all of us, even me, the loquacious one. The big mouth, the ever churning idea factory is temporarily stilled. As a retired person I have a strong interest in all these areas of concern. As a writer, the last week or so of working my way through a case of writer’s cramp has been a time of reflection and recharging of batteries. I think I am now past my personal period of writer’s cramp. Aloha Friends and Prospective Writers In an article directory, essentially you put forth copyrighted free standing samples of your work. This could be a first chapter, a segment of a story, that you choose. It is an especially valuable way to reinstate material languishing in the closet, unseen, and lost forever. Unless you free it and edit it for the world to see. The important part is that each article must stand alone, and by itself. You can upload a series, if the parts are clearly labeled: Part 1, Part 2, etc. Your articl

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