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Why I never suceeded as a writer.

I was too afraid to get uncomfortable and actually start doing something

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Mark Twain loved to travel and once wrote, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” Source Source 2

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Even the moon was out to say farewell

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The journey home

Final morning before the 6 he trip.back home. Was a great and inspiring week. The highlight was clearly being with family.

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Just a couple more since the sun showed up

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6am on Friday in Currituck, NC. Last day in Outer Banks. Been a greatly needed vacation.

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Day 5 in Outer Banks, NC

Had a great week with family at the beach and had some incredible inspiration. Some major progress toward the next game I am going to run and also even have a way to tie it in with my existing book idea to get some good feedback from trusted family and friends.

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Another friday

Telling myself I'm smart enough to create something and about to find out if that is true

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On the left...my attempt to draw my characters without any reference. The right is my attempt on the same character after looking at an example.

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Barbecue Turkey for dinner tonight. Made the sauce myself.

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On Saturdays we play White Wolf. It is like this...

It's a group of 5 people with special powers who work together because they are friends. Of the group, 2 were girls and the rest were guys. They often got into a lot of trouble but always managed a way out, usually through luck and convincing God that they should be allowed to live.

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Thought I was done

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8 pages in

New story , old characters and all in pencil on paper.

8 pages in so far and more just keeps coming. I can't believe I find this more interesting than video games.

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Trying to draw on my phone with my man fingers looks like a pretty big success. Gonna work on a story today without ever giving it up for not being good enough.

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Totally done this before, multiple times

Me right now

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Wow. This is some good stuff. Got some fun ideas now. Episode 1 here we go!

Hey, a chart! This is inspired by an ask I got (I’m gonna be honest, I promised the person I’d tag them, but then sent the reply before I wrote down the URL. So, if I told you I was gonna tag you in this, tag yourself!!)