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zyxxyz wrote about the word castle 1 year, 7 months ago
I will build my daughter a castle. She is my beautiful little princess and I will give her the absolute best of everything. I have three daughters, so now I will build three castles. Do I really want to be a king this badly? That sounds like an awful lot of castles to build.
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zyxxyz wrote about the word advice 1 year, 7 months ago
A co-worker gave me a piece of advice once. “Become indispensable,” he said. Become an expert. Master the subject matter. Be the go-to guy. I followed his advice. It was fun hearing all the stories about the lack of expertise from co-workers when I was laid off three years later, but it did not prevent [...]
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zyxxyz wrote about the word stacks 1 year, 7 months ago
Down in the basement, there are stacks and stacks of old magazines. We never threw them away, and we bought a lot of them. No one ever read one of them after they were taken downstairs. I think Dad may have meant to build a fire hazard, just in case he ever wanted to take [...]
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zyxxyz wrote about the word setting 1 year, 7 months ago
So here I am at my keyboard, trying to bank out a novel. Every November. Every fucking November I torture myself like this. Fifty thousand words, they say. One thousand six hundred, sixty-six words per day. I described the setting. Took three words. Only 49,997 to go.
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zyxxyz wrote about the word warned 1 year, 7 months ago
My wife warned me this would be a bad idea, but did I listen? Of course I listened. And then I promptly disregarded her advice. Why should I care what she thinks of my plan to jump out an airplane and glide down the edge of a mountain in a wing suit? I saw that [...]
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