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  Opinion? What Opinion? Photo by Lucas Newton on Unsplash Why My Opinion Really Doesn't Matter. I t seems to be that everybody, and I mean everybody  these days has an opinion to share, on everything  and everywhere . Whether it be publicly, in your face, or on FaceBook, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube. . . literally everywhere . For the last several years , let alone months, the Amber Heard vs Johnny Depp legal drama has been dissected, analyzed, rehashed, and relitigated. People have loud vocal opinions about public figures, politics, religion, climate change, the economy, culture, the MeToo movement, the LGBTQ movement, racism, and everything small and large in-between. You can't take a breath without someone having an opinion about it, often completely unsolicited and completely unnecessarily. Now I'm not saying this is a bad thing. Change doesn't occur without discussion Society is, by its very nature, fluid and dynamic. The opinions of others help us consolid

 W-Two Worlds Apart Image from Netflix How one K-drama validated my entire perspective as a writer. I t is easy to think, as a writer, that we are somehow Gods, holding the Universe of our imagined worlds in our creative hands. This is a dangerous belief for we are not gods, but care-takers.  I once heard an author-tuber say something I have never forgotten and, equally, have never forgiven. Now, don't get me wrong, I have a great deal of respect and admiration for this particular author-tuber, though I freely admit I have no specific desire to read her work. I mean her no disrespect and she's certainly free to have her own opinion. That doesn't mean I can't vehemently disagree with what she said. The offending comment?   They're only characters, people! They're not real and they do what YOU tell them to so get over yourselves. Heresy! I don't know about other authors but, to me, my characters are not simply cardboard cutouts on a storyboard. They're rea

 The Problem with DID Dealing with Multiple Opinions in the Same Mind For those not automatically in the know, DID is the acronym for Dissociative Identity Disorder and, since this isn't a treatise on the condition, if you wish more specific insight, please feel free to look it up.  In its simplest nutshell, DID refers to having multiple identities residing within one mind, and, most often, those identities are independent of one another and rarely communicate between themselves. This can lead to complications. Many  complications, not least of which occur when they have differing and oftentimes completely opposing opinions on things.  I  have DID and, to date, somewhere around seven separate personas reside in my mind. I liken it to having a boardroom meeting taking place between my ears. A boardroom meeting before it's been called to order, when everybody is talking at once without any specific agenda. It can get very noisy and very confusing. The reason I was inspired to wri

The Ultimate Guide to Productivity Just kidding. E very man, his wife, and his dog who's ever aspired to be a writer seems to have their two pennies' worth to say on the subject of writing. Some of it is great, and I've learned far more than I ever thought I needed to. Some of it is mediocre at best and I can only think the writers themselves could do with a little more research, study, and practice. And some of it should never have been committed to the page, let alone inflicted upon an unsuspecting world. Yes, this is a little rant. Blame it on the weather (cold), frustration (things aren't currently going quite according to plan), or even on one of the alters (always entirely possible). You don't have to read it or comment on it, or do. It's up to you. I'm simply venting that there are times when I'm drawn in by a title that gives the impression I might learn something of genuine value and, by the time I've reached the conclusion of whatever I'