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culver vaughan halliday's avatar

A good idea to try and notice. i will give it a shot and perhaps live in reality. Wonderful quote, too!

Kathy Minicozzi's avatar

I love your observations. Keep writing!

Cindy House's avatar

Thanks for the shout out, Polly. I love your observation of the toddler patting the back of the woman's neck.

Gray Henry's avatar

Last quote rings a bell. Thats why theories is damming apart right now. All the individual clashing concepts of reality. Didn’t know there were so many suicides in yr class. Who were they?

Candy Kennedy's avatar

A writer I follow on Substack has given up on publishers and is instead self-publishing. Have you considered that?

Polly Walker Blakemore's avatar

You are welcome and thank you! Actually that afternoon I was in a real funk and I just started to drill down on what I was seeing and then write about it and that lifted me.

Polly Walker Blakemore's avatar

The writing I was submitting was for literary journals, not book material. I have a publisher for my book of writing about my time with my mom when she was in hospice, Atmosphere Press. And now I am getting ready to submit my journal series to my editor there to see if they want to do that as a book. Or several books! I have over 100,000 words since October.