“Write in real time.” That was Taylor Swift’s writing advice to 45,000 (mostly girls and women of course) in Toronto’s Rogers Centre last week. Clearly, writing is therapeutic to Swift. She didn’t apologize. And she gave a prescription to her faithful followers: Write what you feel. When you feel it.
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Someday, I can write about this. That’s what I thought as I flopped around like a gagging rag doll in my husband’s arms as he performed the Heimlich maneuver-ish to dislodge the olive pit stuck in my throat. In the first five minutes of a dinner party. In a posh corner of downtown Toronto. In a penthouse apartment.
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The other day, I diagnosed a friend with OWS (Other Writer Syndrome). She was telling me that she used to think she would write a book, until she read the writing of someone else and grew discouraged. My friend is suffering from a common ailment, and one I know well.
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A writing mentor can make all the difference. I have had several. Now one of my greatest joys is to be one.
And I absolutely still need one.
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Two inches past busy.
That is how much writing and editing I like to have and how busy I like to be.
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