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The Stapler

I wrote a quickie for Flash Fiction called the Stapler. The story is okay, not great, not bad. However, there is something about the narrative that felt very fun and easy to write. It came out unforced. Some of you reading this may know what I mean. Sometimes I struggle to write something that is good and it ends up bad. Other times, it flows effortlessly. I truly didn't know what the next word would be until I wrote it. I didn't know where the story would go or how it would end.

It's like the personal force fields in Dune. A bullet cannot get through because it is to fast. A sword can get through because it is slow. Sometimes easy is the path to take.

I bring this up as a way of looking in on myself to find the Key ... that one thing that lets me write with an effortless flow.

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