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Writing Myself into a Corner

Writing Myself into a Corner

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Writing Myself into a Corner Agatha Christie. Her name is synonymous with the mystery novel. Mention Louis L’Amour and westerns spring to mind. If I name a specific author—unless you are true devotee of that author—you will probably associate that person with a specific genre. But did you know that Agatha Christie wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott? Louis L’Amour also wrote boxing stories, action adventure stories set in the South Pacific, and historical fiction that had nothing…

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Just Write Something

Just Write Something

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Just Write Something This is a sentence. This is another sentence. Here is another one. A few more of these and it will look like a real paragraph. It won’t look like a big paragraph, but it will be a paragraph none-the-less. Few things are scarier than staring at a blank sheet of paper or computer screen and knowing that you need to fill it full of words. And not just any words, mind you, but words that people will…

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Michelle Was Here!

Michelle Was Here!

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Michelle Was Here! I’ve got a little notepad in which I jot down ideas for my blog. While traveling back home from Glady, I was adding the ideas for the past couple posts when my sister grabbed the notepad from my hand and wrote “Michelle was here!” My first thought was to shove her out of the van seat since she was sitting on the end, but I didn’t. I decided to leave it and see if it sparked any…

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New Category

New Category

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A “Stories” category has been added to the site. Please remember that I am the sole owner of stories on this site unless otherwise noted. That said, I hope you enjoy this new category. Just thought I would jot this down.

395 Years Old

395 Years Old

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I love reading and I love history, so when a historical document written almost 400 years ago celebrates an anniversary, you can be sure it will be recognized by The Downjotter. Considered by some to be one of the first, and one of the most important, documents written on these shores, The Mayflower Compact celebrates its 395 anniversary on November 11, 2015. If you have never had the opportunity to read this precursor to the Constitution, I am posting it now. I…

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Two Matches and a Handful of Dryer Lint

Two Matches and a Handful of Dryer Lint

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Two Matches and a Handful of Dryer Lint (I’ll soon be done with the Cheat Salamander references, so just bear with me.) While in the Elkins, West Virginia area for the excursion, we were fortunate enough to rent a house in Glady, about 11 miles away from the train station. We arrived at the house after dark so we had no idea what the outside of it or the surrounding area looked like. One look inside, however, was enough to…

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