What I do now: write every day.
Do you have plans for New Year's?

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Sometimes you need to take a leap of faith and grab new opportunities (in personal or professional life). It will almost certainly make you uncomfortable, but play the long game for growth,
"You can't fix a flower by changing parts of it. You have to change it's environment."
What is your main goal for 2024?
Get my book published.
What do you hope WON'T happen in 2024?
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As a Lush example if someone has a fantasy/kink and only wants to write on that, does that make them a lazy writer or is it like with other artists they are in a 'Blue Period' or a 'I really need to write these bondage kink stories out my system for a while ' as an erotica equivalent example? I am curious what other writers think about this.
I like what you said here. I tend to beat an idea into the ground, until I'm tired of it. Then I move on. It's like I'm trying to work something out in my head, and writing is the only way to do it. So you pound on an idea until something--who knows what?--gets resolved in your head and you can move on.
I literally wrote 54 BSDM stories as Verbal, with the same couple, and the same themes, over and over again. It wasn't lazy. Just repetitive. After awhile I was all written out about it.
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Do we lump news items about christian nationalists (most of whom also identify as MAGA Qanon conservatives) into this thread? I'm guessing, yes.
Many states (run by Republicans) are now trying to abolish the separation of church & state - with proposals like this one from Arkansas.
That is the creepiest monument I've ever seen.
“As much as I’m not in favor of any of this, I do have to say that of what I’ve seen, [the living wall] is the least offensive to me,” Leraris said. “I mean when I saw the crypt and I saw that umbilical cord coming out of the ground with a baby in it, I just thought, it’s not going to take me much to throw up.”
Yes. On St. Patrick's Day, the kids put out a leprechaun trap on the kitchen table. I set up an elaborate leprechaun prank involving piling all the kitchen chairs on top of the table, their trap on top of the chairs, and a sign on top of the chairs that said "Ha, ha, ha, you missed us!" My eldest daughter recognized my handwriting and thus knew leprechauns were fake. All the dominoes fell after that: Easter bunny, Santa. It was Dad the whole time! When she asked I told her the truth.
Do you like Christmas?