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I rarely get called [real name]. I don’t know why, but it has always been the case. Even my parents don’t call me by my name. My mother has been calling me “chicken,” for as long as I can remember. Other people close to me call me a variety of nicknames. It may be because
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Remember when gratitude journals were all the rage? If you just think of 3 things you’re grateful for every day, you’ll notice the change in your life. I think the idea was to train yourself to see the positives (I wrote about this in Glimmers). I tried this practice for a while, but no amount
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The dread got me, guys. It did. It permeated everything and coloured the way I saw my every day. And no wonder; I think so many things about our world are designed to spark rage and fear and despair. But then, there are glimmers. A lot of people have written about glimmers, but I’ll explain
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As Pretty Lynne, I usually write about things when they are going well, or when I’ve got it all figured out. Today is a little bit different. Most days, I feel great about being a single woman. I am smart and capable and can figure out how to do things I haven’t had to do
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Lately I’ve been describing myself as a “vanilla” creator, and I can feel the apology in the description. “You might find my work a bit boring,” I’m implying, “but that’s what I do.” I’d like to take that back. I have been around the erotic audio and Lit community for a while now. In that
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Remember Tumblr? It was the first social media for many of us. I got to see the pretty pictures and the poetry, but luckily skipped the drama. I couldn’t tell you who wrote it or what the rest of the poem said, but this line from a Tumblr post stays with me even all these
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A tiny bit of PL lore: I had a bit of success as a writer when I was younger, but I didn’t have the ability to withstand criticism and I felt too fragile to put myself out into the world. (More on this in the future.) I also had some funny beliefs about how art
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Did you know that some people don’t walk around with music in their heads at all times? I was surprised to learn this recently when one of my favourite musicians told me it’s not true for him. Because I have a song in my head at all times, I had assumed it was true for
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