Comments on: Progress Report #50 http://markbittner.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/progress-report-50/ It's All About Religion and Politics Mon, 20 May 2013 21:06:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chandani Diaz http://markbittner.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/progress-report-50/#comment-852 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:11:11 +0000 http://markbittner.wordpress.com/?p=1905#comment-852 Please, by all means – keep working on that book – you’re almost done, right!!!???? We can’t wait to buy it. How do you ever maintain that skill to write? People used to tell me I had a gift for writing – but then there were choir practices for our daughter, her karate practices, soccer (thank God she decided one her own to quit that), REGULAR work (for me) plus a secondary job cleaning a Jewish synagogue (work we’re HAPPY to get, don’t misunderstand!). By the time I come home, COOK dinner for all of us (my hubby, Nando, is a great chef but he sometimes has to put in 18 hr. shifts as a paramedic)….by that TIME I have no creativity left. Wrote a short story about 7 yrs. ago and it was rejected by just about everyone. How do you find the inspiration & time to write??

]]> By: Suzy http://markbittner.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/progress-report-50/#comment-746 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 01:26:41 +0000 http://markbittner.wordpress.com/?p=1905#comment-746 Sometimes when I think I am about to down, I can pull myself together by singing these lyrics from a John Prine song:

That’s the way that the world goes ‘round
You’re up one day, the next you’re down
It’s half an inch of water & you think you’re gonna drown
That’s the way that the world goes ‘round

]]> By: Sarah http://markbittner.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/progress-report-50/#comment-742 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 16:22:14 +0000 http://markbittner.wordpress.com/?p=1905#comment-742 Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

— Not Waving But Drowning [ excerpt ], by Stevie Smith

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