What I Do When I Can't Sleep

It's way too early to be up and writing (1:30 AM MST), but an inability to sleep has driven me to my laptop. Dennis and I have been looking at property to buy for a new homestead. It's been fun, but it has distracted me from blogging.  So, as long as I'm awake, I may as well update my blog.


We take our coffee to the Rocky Mountain National Park most mornings for Bible study and photo shoots. I've been making slideshows of the photos I take. Here's one of my recent endeavors for your viewing enjoyment.  Nighty-nite.  -- NR

10 Ways to Know You're a Writer

Photo by Danillo Rizzuti
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1. You'd rather write than eat.
2. When you have to eat you bring your laptop to the table and sneak in a few bites between typewritten words.
3. Everyone you know is a potential character in your next story.
4. Everyone you meet is a potential character in your next story.
5. You find spiritual applications in most everything you experience and imagine building devotionals around them.
6. Your emails are almost always three times longer than your friends' emails.
7. You can't stop yourself from editing your friends' emails.
8. Next to photos of your children and grandchildren, your most prized possession is your box of journals.
9. The most frustrating thing that happens to you is waking up at 2:00 in the morning with a killer writing idea and convincing yourself there's no way you'll forget it, only to lose it completely when you go back to sleep.
10. You make a list of 10 ways to know you're a writer.

-NR

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