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Good Evening all members of the Tribe (those of us of the Creative Mind), I know I have fallen far short of my goal to use this blog to help document the agonies of producing my literary endeavors. In a way, the long periods of silence have serve to truly illustrate where so many of us fall short -- discipline! I was thinking about this recently. I have written several poems in the past few weeks, but have not produced the short stories or the progress on my novel as I wanted. I know a handful of writers that I KNOW to be brilliant. Why are they not famous? Well, I think determination (combined with luck) is what separates the men from the boys (so to speak). We all get in our own way! I get home from work and my mind and body are drained and it is hard to stay motivated to do much of anything. This has to change. They say that the strong survive. I am not sure who "they" are, but They have a lot to say, apparently. We all get in our own way. How badly do we want to s