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Tips for authors who give talks:
- 📚 Get a wheelable box for you books.
- 📚 Don't eat smelly food beforehand (curry, tuna etc.)!
- 📚 Check the route several times and make sure you know where you're parking.
- 📚 Have a throat sweet beforehand, particularly if the weather is dry.
- 📚 For your book boxes, bring strong tape to repair them if needed and packaging because hopefully you'll sell some and will be going home with a half-empty or two. -
Tips for authors who give talks:
- 📚 Get a wheelable box for you books.
- 📚 Don't eat smelly food beforehand (curry, tuna etc.)!
- 📚 Check the route several times and make sure you know where you're parking.
- 📚 Have a throat sweet beforehand, particularly if the weather is dry.
- 📚 For your book boxes, bring strong tape to repair them if needed and packaging because hopefully you'll sell some and will be going home with a half-empty or two. -
Tips for authors who give talks:
- 📚 Get a wheelable box for you books.
- 📚 Don't eat smelly food beforehand (curry, tuna etc.)!
- 📚 Check the route several times and make sure you know where you're parking.
- 📚 Have a throat sweet beforehand, particularly if the weather is dry.
- 📚 For your book boxes, bring strong tape to repair them if needed and packaging because hopefully you'll sell some and will be going home with a half-empty or two. -
Tips for authors who give talks:
- 📚 Get a wheelable box for you books.
- 📚 Don't eat smelly food beforehand (curry, tuna etc.)!
- 📚 Check the route several times and make sure you know where you're parking.
- 📚 Have a throat sweet beforehand, particularly if the weather is dry.
- 📚 For your book boxes, bring strong tape to repair them if needed and packaging because hopefully you'll sell some and will be going home with a half-empty or two. -
Tips for authors who give talks:
- 📚 Get a wheelable box for you books.
- 📚 Don't eat smelly food beforehand (curry, tuna etc.)!
- 📚 Check the route several times and make sure you know where you're parking.
- 📚 Have a throat sweet beforehand, particularly if the weather is dry.
- 📚 For your book boxes, bring strong tape to repair them if needed and packaging because hopefully you'll sell some and will be going home with a half-empty or two. -
#Today 10
Good day!
Summit aside, of the 4 other prominences on Blue Mtn this one, the 2nd highest, doesn’t have an official trail to the summit.
I found a faint one last year. The views are the best of the 4. Go figure.
Exploring the point has become a favorite activity.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 10
Good day!
Summit aside, of the 4 other prominences on Blue Mtn this one, the 2nd highest, doesn’t have an official trail to the summit.
I found a faint one last year. The views are the best of the 4. Go figure.
Exploring the point has become a favorite activity.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 10
Good day!
Summit aside, of the 4 other prominences on Blue Mtn this one, the 2nd highest, doesn’t have an official trail to the summit.
I found a faint one last year. The views are the best of the 4. Go figure.
Exploring the point has become a favorite activity.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 10
Good day!
Summit aside, of the 4 other prominences on Blue Mtn this one, the 2nd highest, doesn’t have an official trail to the summit.
I found a faint one last year. The views are the best of the 4. Go figure.
Exploring the point has become a favorite activity.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 10
Good day!
Summit aside, of the 4 other prominences on Blue Mtn this one, the 2nd highest, doesn’t have an official trail to the summit.
I found a faint one last year. The views are the best of the 4. Go figure.
Exploring the point has become a favorite activity.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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How To Identify And Fix All The Places Where Telling - Or Exposition - Rears Up In Your Writing #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/194887234X
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#Today 09
Good day!
42F this morning.
An image that captures autumn here. The red brush and green pines.
In the distance is striping. The green valley, golden grass of the foothills, and blue mountains beneath a cloudy sky.
There’s even sedimentary rock in the foreground.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 09
Good day!
42F this morning.
An image that captures autumn here. The red brush and green pines.
In the distance is striping. The green valley, golden grass of the foothills, and blue mountains beneath a cloudy sky.
There’s even sedimentary rock in the foreground.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 09
Good day!
42F this morning.
An image that captures autumn here. The red brush and green pines.
In the distance is striping. The green valley, golden grass of the foothills, and blue mountains beneath a cloudy sky.
There’s even sedimentary rock in the foreground.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 09
Good day!
42F this morning.
An image that captures autumn here. The red brush and green pines.
In the distance is striping. The green valley, golden grass of the foothills, and blue mountains beneath a cloudy sky.
There’s even sedimentary rock in the foreground.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 09
Good day!
42F this morning.
An image that captures autumn here. The red brush and green pines.
In the distance is striping. The green valley, golden grass of the foothills, and blue mountains beneath a cloudy sky.
There’s even sedimentary rock in the foreground.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404
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How to Create Your Story's Characters #writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872404
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A Reader Somewhere
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — September 9, 2026
Most writing begins with a strange assumption.
You sit down at the desk, or the table, or sometimes the corner of the bed with a laptop balanced on your knees, and you begin putting words together for people you cannot see. There is no audience in the room. No editor leaning over your shoulder. No reader raising a hand to ask a question.
Just the quiet act of turning thoughts into sentences.
For independent writers, that quiet can last a long time.
Days turn into months, and months turn into years of writing, publishing, archiving, and repeating the cycle. The work becomes a kind of routine. You show up, produce the next piece, and send it out into the wide digital landscape where most things disappear almost immediately.
Or at least that is how it feels.
But every so often there is a reminder that the work does not vanish completely.
A visitor from a different part of the world. A familiar pattern of someone returning to read several articles in a row. A quiet presence moving through the archive.
It is never dramatic.
There are no crowds gathering at the door of an independent publication. No applause when an article is finished. The signs of readership are small and easy to miss.
And yet they matter.
Because somewhere, at some point during the day, someone opened the page and stayed long enough to read what was written. They took a few minutes from their own life and spent it with a set of ideas produced by someone they will probably never meet.
That simple act changes the nature of the work.
Writing stops being a monologue and becomes a kind of conversation across distance and time. The writer sends something out. A reader receives it. A thought forms. Perhaps it stays with them for a while.
The writer may never know.
But the connection exists anyway.
That is the quiet reality behind a great deal of independent media. Not the loud metrics or the arguments that dominate public platforms, but the steady presence of readers who simply show up, read, and move on with their day.
If you are one of those readers, then you are part of the unseen half of the work.
You may never announce yourself. You may never send a message or leave a comment.
But the fact that you are there—somewhere—means the work continues to travel farther than the writer can see.
For more social commentary, please see Occupy 2.5 at https://Occupy25.com
References
Merton, R. K. (1938). Social structure and anomie. American Sociological Review, 3(5), 672–682.
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#Today 08
Good day!
Gee, a tree.
A lovely ponderosa pine, perhaps lonely, but I didn’t take this picture for it.
I took it for the grass.
The grass in the foreground, unlike most of the background, is a gold and brown mix, creating a pattern. I feared I couldn’t capture it.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 08
Good day!
Gee, a tree.
A lovely ponderosa pine, perhaps lonely, but I didn’t take this picture for it.
I took it for the grass.
The grass in the foreground, unlike most of the background, is a gold and brown mix, creating a pattern. I feared I couldn’t capture it.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 08
Good day!
Gee, a tree.
A lovely ponderosa pine, perhaps lonely, but I didn’t take this picture for it.
I took it for the grass.
The grass in the foreground, unlike most of the background, is a gold and brown mix, creating a pattern. I feared I couldn’t capture it.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
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#Today 08
Good day!
Gee, a tree.
A lovely ponderosa pine, perhaps lonely, but I didn’t take this picture for it.
I took it for the grass.
The grass in the foreground, unlike most of the background, is a gold and brown mix, creating a pattern. I feared I couldn’t capture it.
Be everwell.
#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #HikingAdventures #Nature #NaturePhotography #NatureLover #Photography #LandscapePhotography
