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October 14, 2023

My Fired Story’s Still Not Ready

And honestly, I don’t know if I’m going to post it at all. I’m trying to weigh so many things. Like will it help someone else? Wilp it hurt me if I have to get another job. I don’t know….

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October 13, 2023

My Self-Publishing Journey: Securing an Editor is Imminent

I found editors! Somebody cue the Pointer Sisters because I’m so excited! I’ve found editors that I like, and that I would feel comfortable hiring.  I haven’t reached out to anyone – not quite there yet, but just having access…

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October 12, 2023

I Finally Began Searching for an Editor

I started searching for an editor today, and I gotta tell you it was exhausting. I’m pretty anal when it comes to shit like that (no pun intended – do people even use the term anal anymore?). I’ve come to…

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October 11, 2023

Wednesday Roundup: Potpourri

It’s Wednesday roundup time, where I gather five post that caught my eye and post them here for you to enjoy as well. It’s funny, because I was like I really don’t feel like writing anything today, but I was…

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October 10, 2023

Perception is Everything…Or is it?

It’s 10:23pm and I’ve just started writing. I did not work on anything regarding self-publishing my book today. In other news, my high-top Converse came in today. Actually, a pair came in yesterday as well. I ended up ordering three…

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October 9, 2023

Getting it Write: A Book Self-Publishing Story In the Beginning

As you may or may not know, I have decided to self-publish a book. Twenty years or so ago, I wrote a short story that I tried to get published in the New Yorker, but was summarily rejected. I mean…

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Hello! Welcome to Shirscribe! I know my face doesn't look so welcoming in this photo, it's just that I did those braids myself and I actually like this pic. But I am really happy you're here, so come on in, have a look around, read a post or 50, comment if you'd like and come back soon!

Introducing My Writing Practice!

You know, writing rarely comes easy for me. Most of the time I mull over it forever, then edit it and edit it,  only for it to still be filled with errors, or just not be quite right.

Part of the problem is I’m reaching for that old unattainable perfection. The other part is I need to read and write more.

So this is me, writing more.

In this series, I’m giving myself two hours to write about a topic of my choice nonstop, and 30 minutes to edit it before I post it here, just as it is.  The great sentences and the incoherent ones with spelling and grammatical errors too.  I’m just going to write and see what it will be.

I’ll be posting these writing practices once a week. I’m not sure which day, and maybe no particular day, just one time a week, with no end date as of now.

I can be so insecure about my writing, so I think this will be helpful.

Here’s to writing and getting better at it!

Thanks for reading!

7.27.2026

Mood…

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. — Psalm 46:4

Lord, let me be that river.

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