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Writer Squeezin's Saturday Newsletter

Last week is in the rear view mirror

Nov 13, 2022

Stories and Back Pages Newsletter

Make More Money on Medium Simplified.

Back to the basics, this is a dollar. I have previously admitted on more than one occasion, that I have a brutally simple mind and a visual learning process. But I learn better when discussing things with myself. The old adage is, when the student is ready, his alter ego teacher appears, so thanks for your patience with me and my various personalities…

2 years ago · Don Martin

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After a Year of Writing for Medium

I read it before. I guess I just didn’t internalize it as I should have. But the real lesson I should have learned here won’t take much ink or many electrons. As you write for Medium, there will be times you get impatient. There will be times you pout and quit Medium. You will try changing your story lengths. You will try to vary your topics. You will look…

2 years ago · Don Martin

Stories and Back Pages Newsletter

Why I Have Trouble Making Decisions

Tonight, the television that usually only offers hour after hour of Frazier reruns instead offers two wonderful choices at the same time. It does make it hard for me to decide what to watch. We have self-aggrandizement on parade on one channel, as the Country Music Association hands out accolades and awards for the accomplishments of its members. It’s a …

2 years ago · Don Martin

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Six Holiday Home-Selling Hacks

Five Things to Remember about Winter There is less competition. There is less competition. There is less competition. You are competing with fewer other houses-for-sale. People still get transferred into your area, outgrow houses, start new jobs, relocate to and within your area for numbers of reasons that don’t stop because the weather is cold…

2 years ago · Don Martin

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3 Quick-Release Relaxation Hacks

How to relax quickly in 10–20 minutes. It used to be I could frequently get tense over some contrary customer or even something inanimate, that didn’t work right or didn’t work as I wanted it to. I would get to a point where my productivity suffered and I, myself, didn’t work right…

2 years ago · Don Martin

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I Was a Writer Wannabe

William Golding. F. Scott Fitzgerald. George Orwell. My high school teachers made me read them. I immediately wanted to be one of them. Yes, I shared my desire to be in the Beatles with a new desire to be a writer. Most of my writings and some of my other media creations are the stories of my evolution into the world of writing…

2 years ago · Don Martin

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