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#writing Looking for more connections with writers. Will follow back. I write romantic dystopian epic adventure in the Stone Age. No agent yet. I’m working through burnout since my daughter’s drug overdose. Hopefully I’ll find my mojo soon, by God’s grace. Fellowship may help! 🖊️

#WritingCommmunity Stuck in a rut of burnout from life’s difficulties and unable to write intensely, I revisited my enneagram to see how I’ve changed. #9–Peacemaker—rose from my 8th trait to my 4th. How have your driving principles changed through the storms of life and writing?

#writingcommunity I tend to put major effort into the songs, poems, and proverbs in my Stone Age fiction. Some readers love it and say I'm good at it. It’s a blast but takes time. I ask those who live by their writing: Is the extra musicality worth it or just needless flourish?

When was the last time you learned something new, wonderful, and useful for life? How did you learn it? A patient of mine today—who has had 50 kidney stones—said staying upright helps pass stones quicker. I never knew that! Hundreds of my patients could have used his insight! TAT

#writingcommunity I think I figured out why I so enjoy corresponding with fellow writers. Not only do they compose beautiful sentences and paragraphs, but they parry every linguistic blow. Scene, scene sequel. Scene. Sequel. TAT

I'd love to connect with more fellow physicians and medical professionals who write about disease in an engaging way hoping to bring healing and understanding. I developed fibromyalgia in my twenties, quite severe, but am functioning almost normally now. In my Stone Age

#WritingCommunity An editor, trying to help me improve my consistent character reactions, said, “Watch ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.’” I did—and I highly recommend it! Please respond if you are as impressed as I was. This movie is catnip for writers and

#running #fantasy To avid runners who also read with passion— I've written a fantasy duology in the Stone Age with young iconic heroes, who receive gifts from the God character including running skill, who grow to Olympic caliber in speed and endurance. (Over 230 K, I include

My problem with website posting— I’ve heard it said, by my famous author cousin Jerry Jenkins, that one should ideally spend only ten percent of their weekly writing time on social networking and marketing. But when I post on my website, I try to make it artistic. Usually that

#spoonie #chronicillness Hello, spoonie friends— I'm TAT, a family doc with fibromyalgia for thirty years, (8/10 average wanting-to-die misery) severe until ten years ago. Now I live a “near-normal” life, (4-6/10 average pain, headache, fatigue, and brainfog) practicing medicine

Struggling with Burnout? I've written a SFF series of posts on the topic. Today my fictional MC, a writer, escapes from Burnout Valley. troyandrewthompson.com/burnout-part-3/ Next week, the conclusion of the matter! TAT

I’m ready to query again with a book that’s finally excellent. But I could really use 10,000 readers. Is there any way to get there in a year? Today I posted Part 3 of 4 on Burnout. My SFF MC, a writer, escapes today from Burnout Valley. I’d treasure your company on my journey

I write medical humor among other things. Try “No Ifs, Ands, or Buts.” 😊 troyandrewthompson.com/no-ifs-ands-or…

Near Death Experience We who practice medicine—doctors and nurses—observe death regularly. Sometimes we watch people cross over and sneak back briefly to our side. Try “Dying Well on Thanksgiving Day.” troyandrewthompson.com/dying-well-on-…

I was so sure this essay would flow easily: a simple follow-up discussion between myself (with my current literary dreams and challenges) and my older, wiser alter ego. But the conversation clunked and sputtered. Why can’t these two characters communicate better? 😊 One reason

Writers— Are you suffering from BURNOUT? After my daughter’s suicide attempt last fall, and near death, I couldn’t write well for six months. I collected my scattered thoughts, planning to compile them for readers upon my escape from Burnout. At last, I thought I was ready to

On the oscillation between careers— After thirty years of death, lawsuits, bureaucracy, and exhaustion, I had lost much of my joy practicing medicine; in 2015, I cut back to part time and started writing twenty hours per week. Then—funny how these things happen—an agent said of

How I met my wife—a comedic historical romance! How far would you go for the girl of your dreams? troyandrewthompson.com/how-far-would-…

Were you SMART and STUPID in equal measure? I surely was, and my kids still are. Let’s write about it. open.substack.com/pub/troyathomp…

Gift from a WW II veteran, just before he died—a picture of overcoming hardship. troyandrewthompson.com/crossing-the-c…