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All these good things are happening | Our life with MPD/DID

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Our life with MPD/DID. What the heck IS this? December 4, 2015. All these good things are happening. Unfortunately, I feel totally depressed. And foggy. Posted in diamond focus. Feel like shit right now. Laquo; Things are happening. I’m okay to go. Blog owner added: Religious trigger warning]. On December 4, 2015. On December 16, 2015. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.

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10 Wrong Ideas That Took Years To Unlearn | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; 10 Wrong Ideas That Took Years To Unlearn. 10 Problems I Have Not Solved. Torres – We the Animals →. 10 Wrong Ideas That Took Years To Unlearn. January 28, 2014. Ten Wrong Ideas That Took Years to Unlearn. 1 Each person is born alone and dies alone. 2 Eupsychian management (Maslow) is good and possible. 3 One can perceive linear perspective. 4 Memory is a record of what happened. 6 America is a meritocracy.

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Taking Inventory | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Taking Inventory. Imagine Having Been There. Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See →. May 6, 2015. Hunter and Hunted Cover. I figured I would never be able sell the story to a publisher. The length wasn’t right and it didn’t fit into an obvious genre category. So it was destined for self-publication. It’s out there now. See ordering information at http:/ billadamsphd.net/books4u/. It’s a just-barely plausible t...

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Portis – Dog of the South | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Good Books. Rarr; Portis – Dog of the South. Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See. Revising a First Draft →. Portis – Dog of the South. May 16, 2015. Portis, Charles (1999). The Dog of the South. New York: The Overlook Press (256 pp). I enjoyed the utter originality of Portis’ sentences. How does anybody spin out such interesting details that do not have the stink of being writerly? Who is this Ski? Ted Brunow...

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The Name Game | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; The Name Game. Rock n Roll Twofer. What Is a Chapter? April 25, 2014. This is the latest post in the series on my writing process during the long struggle to create. The names of characters help the reader connect to them. People’s names are merely identifiers, not even unique ones, virtually arbitrary, not self-chosen, and they mean nothing. Whether your name is Smith or Pendergast has no bearing on ...What’...

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Good Books: Reviews | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Good Books. Rarr; Good Books: Reviews. Why Do We Need Barbers? June 29, 2013. Everybody and their dog is a book reviewer these days. I review the books I read because it helps me to understand and remember what I read. Read a few of my reviews. If you like the kind of books I like, you’ll have a collection of good books to put on your list. Why Do We Need Barbers? 8212; 1 Comment. July 12, 2014 at 3:36 pm.

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Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Good Books. Rarr; Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See. Portis – Dog of the South →. Doerr – All the Light We Cannot See. May 16, 2015. A Wisp of a Tale. Doerr, Anthony (2014). All the Light We Cannot See. New York: Scribner (530 pp). The story line is severely chopped up, not by the POV shifts, but by time cuts. The story jumps ahead several years or months, then back to a previous period, then forward, t...

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Imagine Having Been There | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Imagine Having Been There. Taking Inventory →. Imagine Having Been There. May 5, 2015. I wrote a story, something I haven’t done in a year. It’s for a contest associated with a conference I’ll attend this summer. Conference attendees don’t have to pay an entry fee so there’s nothing to lose. But after an hour-long, discussion and after reading their detailed written comments, I have to agree. The story su...

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Revising a First Draft | Can't Stop Writing...

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Can't Stop Writing…. Bill Adams, Ph.D. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Rarr; Revising a First Draft. Portis – Dog of the South. Cold Case and True Crime →. Revising a First Draft. May 19, 2015. 8220;The first draft of anything is shit. Ernest Hemingway. The first two pages are inert. The opening line is flat. Dialog is far too expositional. Characters are not well-located in space. The lawyer takes up too many words for what he does. Summarize him. The big gap in this piece is that th...