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‘We were feeling vulnerable again.’  This was stated by some nameless politician on the TV.  But it could have been uttered by almost any politician after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.  It is all rhetoric.  They don’t speak the truth.  There are no guarantees.  We live in a dangerous and unpredictable world.  It always has been.  It will happen again.  People are murdered every day by guns in the US.

It goes beyond rhetoric. ‘Malicious politicians with nefarious schemes.’  this is a line from a song.  Isn’t that the truth?  The politicians will use this incident to take away more civil liberties.  Our rights have been taken away from us one by one.  All in the name of freedom.  We will protect you from bombings and mass murderers.  The fact is those in power can’t prevent such incidents.  They lie and step by step take away our freedoms and we let them because we are scared.  And want protection, which they really can’t guarantee.  They lie and are thieves.  It is the politicians we need protection from.

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You can’t follow trends concerning the subject matter you write about.  You can’t possibly remain genuine.  You have to write about what is deepest in your soul, that which is begging to get out.

There was a popular book out a while ago, “Do What You Love The Money Will Follow.”  Maybe someone should write a book titled, “Write About What You Love Money Will Follow.”  There are no guarantees you will become rich but someone out there will want to read it and buy your book.

I like the famous quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson in his essay of Self-Reliance:  ‘There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction: that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion;…’  You have to mine the field that is only given to you.  We are all wired differently and have different concerns.  That is all you can explore as a writer.  The better you do it and the more genuine, the more people will want to read it.  No one said you will necessarily become rich in the process but at least some people will care about what you write for it was you, you expressed.

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