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Tara Lynn Thompson

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March 2016

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Life is a great story, one that requires verbs, adjectives, and a few made up words just to keep people guessing. I get a sharp, devious zing when I keeping people guessing.

From early on, during my way, way, way back days as a 19-year-old beat reporter, I've been confounding people with my descriptive writing. At first I thought the confounding was a compliment. Mostly, I think they were annoyed.

"I don't appreciate needing a dictionary when I sit down to read my paper, young lady," one reader once complained, which only made me feel exuberant (adj., means "intensely happy"). It wasn't that I had an abnormally, or even that impressive, vocabulary. I just loved mixing words into a heap of puzzle pieces and seeing who wanted to dive in and f ...more

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What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Tara Lynn Thompson If I was a doctor, spending hours blinking into the distance at nothing would disquiet my patients. Especially if it happened mid-operation. As a writ…moreIf I was a doctor, spending hours blinking into the distance at nothing would disquiet my patients. Especially if it happened mid-operation. As a writer, I can drift out of reality at my choosing. People assume the blank expression on my face means I'm mentally creating something, even when I'm only daydreaming to escape a boring meeting.

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

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Open your senses.

Really open them. Take some menthol to the nasal passages. Smear some wasabi on your tongue. Walk into a fabric store and touch ever…more
Open your senses.

Really open them. Take some menthol to the nasal passages. Smear some wasabi on your tongue. Walk into a fabric store and touch everything, but wash your hands first.

Experience your life through your senses. Pay attention to them. Pause when you hear a train whistle. Look at the details of a painting that you've seen a hundred times before. Stare at it again. Look for the things you missed. Scrutinize the paint strokes. Focus on the canvas fibers. Invision the artist's vision take shape, stroke by stroke.

And then restrategize.

Shuffle them up. Use senses in a situation that don't relate. What did that painting smell like? Was that wasabi a pasty, tired green or was the green vibrant with life? Did the menthol taste like biting into an avalanche?

Okay, skip that last one. That could be toxic.

When you write, you are the gateway for your reader to experience your story. You and you alone can do that for them. Otherwise, they are limited. They cannot smell, taste, touch, hear, or see your story. For all practical purposes, they are void of all five senses and cannot stimulate them except through you.

You are their surrogate. Feel for them. Smell for them. Listen for what only you can hear and describe it. Go out there and eat that menthol.

Again, you probably shouldn't do that. (less)

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The 18 Things That Won't Happen In 2019

Place your bets. We're less than a week into 2019 and I'm already getting into my new hobby: making predictions based on nothing other than my 'think so's that are still destined to come true. (Some people knit; I prophesy.)

Here's what won't happen in 2019:

1. The person who believes they know all the answers actually does.
Is this person Jesus? If not, then...

2. People won't spend enough time o Read more of this blog post »

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“There are things in life worth dying for. Toothpaste isn’t one of them. Freedom, justice, truth—these are virtues mankind has sacrificed to obtain. Or protect. Or propagate. They are ideals worthy of blood when little else is. Wars for these virtues are honorable. Idealized. For higher causes and the greater good. They draw the maiden to the hero, the hero to the battle lines, and the coward to obscurity. And they have nothing to do with toothpaste, but toothpaste is what had me in this mess.”
― Tara Lynn Thompson, Not Another Superhero

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“I glanced around the geriatric lighting in the alley for anything I could use as a weapon. All I spotted was a crumpled McDonald’s coffee cup and a hailstorm of cigarettes. If I could get him to smoke them, I could take him out with coronary heart disease in twenty to twenty-five years.”
― Tara Lynn Thompson, Not Another Superhero

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“I blame this entire night on my underwear. They were my laundry day pair, the pair you wear when all others are in the wash. Last year an old college girlfriend had gotten the man of her dreams. Because I agreed to stand next to her wearing a dress the color of phlegm, she gave me personalized undies. Not that I’m fatalistic, but when I opened her gift, my first thought had been, What if I die wearing these, and this is how they identify my body? Across”
― Tara Lynn Thompson, Not Another Superhero

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“There are things in life worth dying for. Toothpaste isn't one of them.”
― Samantha Addison, Not Another Superhero

tags: humorous, hygienic, inspirational

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