You know, normally I've got a schedule to keep. I check over the address list from the year before and make any necessary corrections on Thanksgiving weekend. I put the cards together and get everyone to sign them in the days between Thanksgiving and December 1. This year - it's mid-December and I have done NOTHING. I am looking at the blank page facing me and thinking "I have no idea what to say. Many things happened this year, but most of them are things I don't want to talk about.
Writing fact is so much harder than writing fiction, yet I write fact for a living. I get paid a whole bucket of money to write facts all day long. Something is wrong, here.
I think I've hit on it. I'm constraining myself to what *actually* happened, rather than what I *wish* happened. Problem solved!!
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Fact vs. Fiction: Holiday Style
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I think people would be delighted to get a fantastical one-paragraph lie in their card. It would still be yours!
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