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HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU!
Never blame the messenger. (And...if it's been rejected 10 times, take another look at whatever it is and see if it needs some work. If it hasn't been 10 times, just try again.)

THE THURSDAY QUOTE FROM A BOOK I'M READING THAT KNOCKED MY SOCKS OFF (AND MADE ME WISH I'D WRITTEN IT MYSELF):
"Blame, the truth, it was something you had to feel for yourself. He closed his eyes, asking, waiting. He couldn't feel much of anything, besides a dull ache in his stomach. His eyes opened. Maybe it was too soon. Maybe he wasn't ready. Maybe he would never know for sure. He looked out at the sky. Maybe that was one of life's great lessons - to accept theat there was so much we could never know for certain, and to forgive ourselves anyway."
Ethel Rohan, The Weight Of Him

HAPPY MONDAY TO YOU!
(Makes deciding on names easier...)

Apparently, Poe wasn't impressed with the ceramic cat statue I had in the sitting room.

HAPPY FRIDAY TO YOU!
Thank goodness we have email submissions now.

Because my weekly blog this week is about AllWriters', I figured I would post it here too.
The 7/16/26 This Week's Moment Of Happiness Despite The News, in which all (almost) is right with my world.

7/16/26: OOPS!!! | Author Kathie Giorgio Posted on July 16, 2026 by Kathie7/16/26: OOPS!!! And so this week’s moment of happiness despite the news… Oops. I kinda forgot. But I forgot for a good reason! Really! Today is the first day of the AllWriters’ Annual Retreat, which is my creative writing studio. We’re international – and ...

THE THURSDAY QUOTE FROM A BOOK I'M READING THAT KNOCKED MY SOCKS OFF (AND MADE ME WISH I'D WRITTEN IT MYSELF):
"We're all looking for the death we know."
Ann Patchett, "Whistler"

WEDNESDAY WORDS OF WISDOM FOR WRITERS:
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
― Sylvia Plath
(Wednesday Words of Agreement From Me: Damn straight!)

HAPPY MONDAY TO YOU!
We'll all try anything once.

THE THURSDAY QUOTE FROM A BOOK I'M READING THAT KNOCKED MY SOCKS OFF (AND MADE ME WISH I'D WRITTEN IT MYSELF):
"Though it did come to him, as he and Evie got ready for bed that night, that after the Merrills' party (which seemed years ago now, though it had been only a few months), he had said to Evie when they came home -- he had said something like, "Why don't people ever say anything real?"
And now he knew why. Because to say anything real was to say things that nobody wanted to know. Or if they wanted to know, they could not care in the right way. Or even understand.
It was a private thing, to be alive. He understood this now."
Elizabeth Strout - The Things We Never Say
(This book is AMAZING.)