{"id":251,"date":"2009-12-03T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/12\/a-writers-logcharmed-life-blog.html"},"modified":"2009-12-03T10:58:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T10:58:28","slug":"a-writers-logcharmed-life-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/yourcharmedlife\/2009\/12\/a-writers-logcharmed-life-blog.html","title":{"rendered":"A writer&#8217;s log\/charmed-life blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"colon:semi-colon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/133\/import\/colon%3Asemi-colon.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"240\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>&#8220;If there&#8217;s a book you really want to read, but it hasn&#8217;t been written yet, then you must write it.&#8221; &nbsp;~ Toni Morrison<\/span><\/p>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\">I&#8217;ll work on my book proposal today. Tomorrow I&#8217;ll let you know how I did.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\"><br \/><\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font color=\"#321D02\" face=\"georgia, 'bookman old style', 'palatino linotype', 'book antiqua', palatino, 'trebuchet ms', helvetica, garamond, sans-serif, arial, verdana, 'avante garde', 'century gothic', 'comic sans ms', times, 'times new roman', serif\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse;font-size: medium\">Do you have something to write, something to say? 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