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Haunted Sox

Sep 28, 2025 at 5:45pm
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Thanks everyone. My wife appreciates all the cares and comments. Maybe I'll be able to convince her to come hang here with us rather than on Facebook with her mom.

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Sep 28, 2025 at 11:18am
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Sep 27, 2025 at 11:34pm
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Wow, what a wicked thing for her to do to her own child.

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Sep 16, 2025 at 5:51pm
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I hear you. Went through my own anniversaries of those lost last month and it knocked me out for two weeks straight before I could get my head around writing again.

Don't let guilt be one of the emotions. We feel what we feel. We remember, usually not when we'd like to, and often times, at the worst possible time.

I filled my time with memories- as many good ones as I could pack into my quiet time. I focused on watching the birds at the feeder outside my office window. Did the bare minimum at work. Tried to enjoy time with friends.

Eventually, it passed.

I've found that sometimes talking to them helps, even though they can't hear. Do the things that give you joy and peace, and most of all, forgive yourself for whatever wasn't done, wasn't said, or conversely, was. Let lavender winds ease your pain and remember, we're all here if you need us.

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April 2, 2022 at 2:38pm

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Half Way Point.

Good day all...

I didn't manage to finish any scenes last night so the chapter didn't get done. It'll get done. Today possibly. It'll be chapter 11 but given I have parts of most of the chapters going forward done I am more than halfway through the 21 chapters planned for Emancipation. This is the point where I start to feel anxiety. First, there is the anxiety that I won't ever manage to finish. My first two attempts at writing a book fizzled out after 6 years of work and like ten to fifteen chapters. So there is reason to fear. Although I haven't had any problems finishing since I started doing a detailed scene-by-scene outline.

The second wave of anxiety is that I will finish, but that I will never be able to write another book. Like the last fifteen were mere flukes and I don't really have the capability to do it. I shouldn't worry about this really. It is probably an extension of the thought that I can't finish the one I am working on...

The third wave of anxiety is that I have been working and hanging out with these characters for X months and I am going to miss them. The way they whisper dialog at me as I am just falling asleep or am laying in bed pretending I haven't woken up yet. The characters are like friends and there is no guarantee that they will be in the next book or that I will ever write about them again. Even if I do, so often they have been changed by events between the books that I didn't write about. It just isn't ever quite the same.

Thanks for letting me vent.

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