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The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Writer

Watching the 2024 Olympics qualifying competitions and hearing the profiles of all the athletes who are going to be competing in Paris, made me realize how very much alone we, as writers are in own field of dreams. Each athlete had personal stories to tell about coaches, teammates, family, friends and sometimes entire towns cheering …

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The Olympics and the Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

Watching the previews of the 2012 Summer Olympics made me realize how very much alone we, as writers are in own field of dreams. Each athlete has personal stories to tell about coaches, teammates, family, friends and sometimes entire towns cheering them on. When they had doubts, when they fell on the ice, or landed …

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