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 A Dispatch from My British Columbia Cafe Table 

     I'm listening to The Ink Spots' song, “That's When Your Heartaches Begin,” later made famous by Elvis Presley. Now it's a song by Carl Perkins, who first recorded “Blue Suede Shoes” – little-known songs by famous singers! And now, it's Bo Didley singing “Man,” a Muddy Waters hit. It's fabulous. I am playing the harmonica in-between songs. Anything to avoid writing.

     Still, being a writer is a large achievement. That means one can spell, use correct grammar, edit, plan and research, structure and categorize and teach. Being an author means one has published, even once. If one has published even once, one can publish again. That is why one must not give up. Even just thinking about writing is writing, because one exercises a faculty of the brain that has something to do with creative work.

by Ivan Marinov Tzidinov

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Quote for the Week

"It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop."

                                                                                               ~ Vita Sackville-West