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Hear Ye! Hear Ye!

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file5601297827370Gosh, I hope I make sense here. I spent all day at the courthouse and I am flat wore out.

Calm down, y’all, it was only jury duty. But you know, listening to lawyers all day is very tiring. They talk, talk, talk, talk, TALK. They can’t just skip all the repetition and get to the point.

But I can, friends. Which is why I’m directing you to my short-and-to-the-point post over at the Muffin: Making the Most of 25 Words.

And I also want to give a shout out to Canva which I used to make the graphics for that post–for free. All sorts of fun things over there, so take a look when you have a minute.

As for me, I’m sticking a fork in it, y’all. I’m done.

Catching Up (And So It Begins)

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file0001845637670First day of February and I haven’t changed my calendar yet. (Or put away all the holiday stuff. Or returned my overdue library books…)

It looks like my word for 2016 is not going to be CHALLENGE. It’s going to be another C-word: CATCH-UP. And so I’ll start with the Muffin post I shared over the weekend (and forgot to mention until just now.)

I’ve probably written about the subject of finding your own style (and voice) numerous times; I suspect that means I have slip-ups and fall into that old trap of comparing myself to others, falling short, and then trying to write all fancy-schmancy. You can see what I mean in “Stepping Out in Your Own (Writing) Style.”

Fortunately, I always find my way back to me (and my own personal style). I suppose that’s why I used the Popeye quote (“I am what I am.”) instead of getting all fancy-schmancy and quoting Shakespeare.

But I could’ve quoted Polonius from Hamlet, if I’d wanted. I mean, I know the fancy-schmancy quotes, even if I don’t go around spouting them:

This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Yeah, Mister Man would probably roll his eyes if I threw that quote around. But I bet he’d drop off my library books, if I asked real nice.