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"Honestly, this post makes me a little impatient. The vast, vast majority of working writers have day jobs. They come home and sit down and write. Or they write on the train to work. Or they keep a recorder at hand and mutter into it whenever they..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I learned to read when I was really small, two or two and a half, and I remember vividly my mom telling me "You don't have to always read out loud -- try reading it inside your head." I didn't leave that little world in my head for a long..." [
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3 weeks ago
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"I won't deep fry -- it makes a mess and I'm constantly terrified that the whole apparatus will tip and a wave of hot oil will engulf everything in the vicinity.
This winter I had to finally admit that I won't cook with a whole chicken. Yeah,..." [
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"as a single woman past child-bearing age, i never understood the drive to have technology do what the body clearly doesn't want.
What, you've never benefited from any other advances in medical science? I never understood the drive of people who..." [
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"She deserves something better than you trying to learn to tolerate her body. And who knows? Maybe after some time apart then you'll realize that 40 pounds isn't such a big deal. Maybe it is, but if I knew that my husband was so not into my body..." [
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What literary fiction should I read?
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"I want to garden a little, even though I have a CSA this summer that's going to keep us in vegetables till October. I just don't know how to keep the squirrels away from anything I plant. Those assholes were chewing on my tulip bulbs last fall!..." [
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3 months ago
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"I always put in 1/1, too! Except that's my birthday.
This is neat. Now all we need is for our contacts sidebar to change every time someone updates their relationship status. That's how the kids do it, right?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by The Bellman
3 months ago
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"I do this all the time. The other day, I saw an ostrich running across the road. Turns out, it was some guy in a white shirt walking his black dog. But I saw ostrich.
It's like my subconscious has completely rejected Occam's Razor for my..." [
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3 months ago
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"Am I the only one who copy and pasted the ever-tinier list of complaints to see what it said? Yes? Okay, carry on then." [
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4 months ago
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"After I asked about broiling, I made cut it up, drizzled with olive oil, ground pepper and garlic salt, and broiled it for like 20 mins. It burned and I was sad but then I was so hungry I ate some and omg. It was all soft and crunchy and delicious..." [
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5 months ago
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"When I meditate it's to calm me down enough to actually write. I'm nowhere near a professional writer and I still get stuck in resistance a lot.
If you liked Writing Down the Bones you might get help out of Goldberg's other books. You can also..." [
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5 months ago
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"You might check out the podcast I Should Be Writing. Mur Lafferty talks quite candidly about her attempts to get her science fiction published.
In addition, there are a ton of similar questions in the archive...." [
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6 months ago
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What to make under the broiler?
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6 months ago
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"Okay, but what about holding doors for people? I do it all the time, for men and women, since I figure it's common courtesy and also because men make funny surprised faces when a chick holds the door. I get the door dropped in my face constantly...." [
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6 months ago
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"Thank you for this. I missed out on the earlier thread somehow but I made my way through most of it last night. Just to add another datapoint: I've been a member of Metafilter since 2001. I met my husband through the site, for God's sake. Barring..." [
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6 months ago
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"Like someone said upthread, segue. It was only a couple of years ago that I realized it was the entire word, instead of a shortening of segueway. Not that I had ever seen it written that way. It comes, I'm sure, from reading words instead of..." [
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6 months ago
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"Get a completely objective inspection, with someone who will walk through the house with you and answer all your questions about the home's condition." [
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7 months ago
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"When I make sweet tea, I heat the water with 6-8 bags in just until I can see steam, then pour it over a cup or so of sugar in a pitcher, and stir it up -- essentially making the simple syrup. Once all the sugar is dissolved I add in cool water and..." [
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7 months ago
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"Look, you're an addict, and you're making excuses. You're at a crossroads: when it comes to a woman that you presumably love, and alcohol, which will you choose?
I wish you luck...." [
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7 months ago
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"Devils rancher, I apologize for mis-reading your statement. However, please recognize that shrill and oversensitive are code words that are often specifically tossed at women in order to minimize their concerns. Hysterical is another...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Salamandrous
8 months ago
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"gnfti, I don't see how you can say that we are in a post-sexist age and in the next breath say that "tranny cunt" is anywhere near appropriate. If we were in a post-sexist age, then that insult wouldn't hold any water. But we're not, and..." [
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8 months ago
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"If you're going to have a pity-fuck, this is the way to get one. Baby's first shoutout!" [
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8 months ago
