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Urania tidied the table.

Calliope organized the pencils.

Urania put away the clean dishes.

Calliope pulled receipts out of Typist’s purse and entered them into the checkbook register.

Urania reviewed a stack of scribbled notes.

Thalia growled. “Stop it! We’re going to start pouring words into Book 4’s document. Like a bowl of corn flakes, there will be sharp edges, irregular shapes, and a lot of crunch. That’s what editing is for. Let’s go!”


Words from Typist:

I saw a post on Instagram from @davidowenauthor that read:

Today I asked a 10-year-old girl if she wanted to be a writer. She answered: “I want to do the thinking part but not the writing part.”

So she’s already a writer.

First I laughed.
Next, I reflected.

Nia likes to think.
Cal likes to be.
Tal likes to do.
All three are needed, but there’s a reason Thalia is needed the most right now.

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JackH
Aug 19, 2022Liked by 3musesmerge

T-shirt: “I like to take my wife on romantic walks through the hardware store” 😁

(That's actually true for me & Deb. The scary thing is, she enjoys them. 💚)

>>"Like a bowl of corn flakes, there will be sharp edges, irregular shapes, and a lot of crunch. That’s what editing is for."

💚👏💚👍💚

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Gary Spangler
Aug 19, 2022Liked by 3musesmerge

Cal and Nia were really playing the wooden leg game with strategic stalling!

A professor of experimental psychology in graduate school described himself like the 10-year old girl. “I come up with the ideas. Others implement them.”

Progress, not perfection.

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