#motivation
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A few words about reassessment and continuation…unedited…
Good morning. It’s almost five a.m. here. I am preparing to drive to a neighboring state in search of bookshelves for my library. Sleep eluded me for most of the night, but I’m okay. Yesterday afternoon, I sat at my desk and worked on another rewrite. After failing so spectacularly on A Hot Day Down… Continue reading
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Good morning!
The sun is out this morning, after a storm ripped through last night. Torrential rain fell, lightning flashed, and thunder rumbled for hours. I didn’t feel well, so I downed some cough syrup and crawled under my blankets. I slept soundly, but I ached still. Sharp pain shot across my digestive tract, my head seemed… Continue reading
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Writers write, and update, and a few words of motivation…unedited…
Today’s been an eventful day for me as a writer. I’ve managed to pen an ending for two stories that’s languished in incompleteness. Both The Old, Tired Veteran, and The WidowMaker are drafted, and I managed to do it while sick, so YaY! It’s strange how both are short stories less than ten thousand words. I enjoyed writing them,… Continue reading
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Post 2: Changes for the better…unedited…
As I wrote yesterday, I made several changes to my life in January of 2021. I wrote yesterday that I cut out starches but left it at that. Among the other things I dropped off, I gave up carbonated drinks, Monster energy drinks-including Rip Its and Red Bull, all forms of dessert, and bread. In… Continue reading
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Non-Fiction writing on a Monday morning…unedited…
This morning’s post is about my struggle to lose weight, and the benefits of said weight loss. Continue reading
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Randomness about writing on the difficult days…unedited…
Chicken’s in the air fryer, the dogs are sprawled out on the floor, and a disaster movie plays on Mom’s television. It’s just another Saturday here at the Freeman’s. Mom’s always busy. She’s between the movie, the kitchen, and taking Chunk a treat. Now she’s cooking dinner. I’m not anywhere near that motivated. Today, I… Continue reading
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A few words about Faithless, and maybe a few words of encouragement…unedited…
I’m finally done with the draft of Faithless. Finally. Writers have stories that refuse to cooperate with us from time to time. Faithless was that story. I wanted to go right, it bucked and went left. Then I would wrestle with it until I was tired, and then it would go the way I wanted… Continue reading
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Writing and the Warrior Spirit…unedited…
Hello. I’ve had an interesting experience over the past few days. A murder of crows moved into the area sometime last week. Over the course of the last two days, they’ve fought non-stop with other crows to set the boundaries of their kingdom. Loud caws reverberated throughout the holler. Chunk sat on the porch and… Continue reading
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A Word of Encouragement….my last writing of the day…unedited…
I spent hours yesterday looking for my completed manuscript. Hours. It somehow eluded me that I had failed to save it to my desktop, instead, I trusted it to OneDrive and saved it there. Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but sometimes I want to open my finished work and look at the word… Continue reading
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Timing…a random musing…unedited…
I don’t normally use images in my writings, but for the purpose of this post I decided to add a couple. These images are from my flowerbeds, and these peonies were the first to bloom into what you see before you. I’ve not worked the flowerbeds this past winter, in hopes they would bloom. As… Continue reading
About Me
I’m a retired soldier. Writer and full – time coffee addict. I was born and raised in Mississippi, and I joined the Army at 28 for a life of adventure and travel. Interests include: Reading, walking my two pups, Casanova and Chunk, spending time with my wife Chassidy, and trying to pen the next great American novel. I am on Instagram under Freeman’s Front Porch Musings. I sometimes do Twitter under LarryF7371.
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