Andrew Jack Writing

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Trauma, Life Experience and Writing

We’re often told, by writers better and more experienced than ourselves, to go out and get some life experience before we put fingers to keyboard. It’s hard to write about life, even a life with goblins in it, if you haven’t experienced some of it.   It’s hard to know what they really mean though. [...]

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Buh

So, today has been something of utility day. I’m sure none of you need to hear in any great detail about me fixing my house’s rain spouting. So instead I’m going to recommend you go and read Chuck Wendig’s blog www.terribleminds.com It’s not safe for work, but so few things really are. I hope things [...]

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Writers and Depression

I’ve written about this before, but I wanted to post an update. Let me preface this by saying that I am not a Doctor, I haven’t even played one in a movie. If anything I say contradicts your Doctor’s advice, believe them, not me.   So, I have depression. It’s easier to admit these days, [...]

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Always Sleep On It

Being a writer is full of big moments, tied together with tiny triumphs and little tragedies. I had a big moment on the day of my birthday when, as sometimes happens on thirtieth birthdays, I hit rock bottom despair at about 3pm. I was completely down in the dumps and ready to give away writing [...]

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