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RobertDevereaux

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2. As a published novelist and a progressive, I completely understand.

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Sat Feb 22, 2020, 05:12 PM

Feb 2020

Here's what Kathe Koja, an amazing writer of fiction, posted on FB just today:

How can we read books, write books, make art, make cakes, take walks, take a friend out for drinks, etc., when the country is literally collapsing and the world is on fire? We can do it WHILE WE FIGHT BACK.
Neither is optional.
Pleasure and joy will sustain us.
Have more fun and fight better!

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HELP! I'm having trouble compartmentalizing. [View all] Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 OP

Go ahead and get it out there Shermann Feb 2020 #1

As a published novelist and a progressive, I completely understand. RobertDevereaux Feb 2020 #2

Merci, mon brave! Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #3

Something that has worked for me. Zoonart Feb 2020 #4

Oh my word! Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #6

How cool is that? Zoonart Feb 2020 #7

Thanks, new writer friend! Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #9

Haha... Zoonart Feb 2020 #10

I have resolved to go on a comma cleanse Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #11

Not too many commas. You used them in all the right places. THis coming from a writing Amaryllis Feb 2020 #12

Dayum! Good to know. Mme. Defarge Feb 2020 #13

Wow, already you have me hooked. Farmer-Rick Feb 2020 #14

I need fiction more than ever now Bayard Feb 2020 #5

We all write what we know! B Stieg Feb 2020 #8