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PATRICK

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14. Appreciate everything, even a good horror GOP presidency, like a glass of fine old prussic acid

Reply to Trueblue Texan (Reply #13)

Tue Oct 7, 2025, 10:30 PM

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The loneliness of a long distance writer. It puts you on a sort of creative diet. I enjoy working with my fellow postal workers, the domestic life, writing and illustrating my "stuff." It is all ecstatic.

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Anyone ever get a writer's high, like a runner's high? [View all] bigtree Friday OP

I have had that experience UpInArms Friday #1

I have. FalloutShelter Friday #2

They say to try it with a 72 hour or longer fast bucolic_frolic Friday #3

do i become manic when i write? rampartd Friday #4

I also gain clarity when writing. Midnight Writer Friday #5

It's entering the zone peggysue2 Friday #6

I woke up one morning around mid April, 1994 JMCKUSICK Friday #7

if you wrote it on a computer Trueblue Texan Saturday #11

Yes. FemDemERA Friday #8

Yeah. Then they figured out who was writing the bouncing checks. 3Hotdogs Friday #9

I have been in the flow as you describe... Trueblue Texan Saturday #10

In small doses PATRICK Monday #12

I wish I could access it so freely and easily... Trueblue Texan Tuesday #13

Appreciate everything, even a good horror GOP presidency, like a glass of fine old prussic acid PATRICK Tuesday #14