Category: Writing

Friday Morning FYI – 11/20/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about interpersonal responsibility, complete with an unnecessary tech analogy:

Give unreliable people every opportunity to surprise you, but accept they usually won’t. When it comes down to it, most of us can’t go beyond our operating system’s limitations until something tells us it’s time for an upgrade.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Little writing exercise

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I attended a new (for me) writers group a few months ago, and one of the things we did was an exercise focused on not-using dialogue tags. The idea was simple: your characters (a nun and a drunk) should be identifiable by what they say and how they say it, without you tagging their dialogue. I just found my text buried in Evernote, and thought I’d toss it up here. What do you think? Did I pass?

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Who’s there?
Ugh, not so loud, will ya?
Who are you?
Sorry sister. Musta passed out. You should be proud. This might be the most comfortable dumpster I’ve ever slept in.
Saints, another one.
Another one what?
I told mother superior when that bar opened a block away we needed a lock on that fence.
And keep all this comfy trash to yourselves? Where’s your Christian charity? Not like you’re using it.
Please leave.
And go where? Ooo a chicken leg. How do you throw away a perfectly good chicken leg like this?
Please leave!
Fine. I’m going. God bless, sister.

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Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 11/6/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is a little cliché, but it came across one of my feeds right at the moment I needed to see it, so I thought I’d share:

Don’t let others pull you into their conflict. Instead, pull them into your peace.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Friday Morning FYI – 10/16/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about the people in our lives friends loved ones:

When this goes live, I’ll be a few hours away from standing in a line with my dad and brother as sorry-eyed family and friends file past, offering sympathy, hugs, and understanding. All of that will, of course, be appreciated, but nothing will compare to the following text I received this (10/15) morning:

“I just saw the post about your mom and I wanted you to know if you need a shoulder to lean on or anything I’ll be there in a heartbeat.”

I tear-up (read: lose. my. shit.) every time I read that (yes, even as I write this). It came from my oldest friend, who I’ve known for thirty years, and I believe every word of it. She’s wonderful on every level.

These are the kind of people to cherish-the ones who will drop everything when you need them, even if you don’t ask, and even if you haven’t seen each other in years. But don’t just cherish them, be one of them to someone.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}