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Stacia M. Fleegal

@shapeshifter43

writer, writing teacher, solo mom, survivor

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 13, 2017, 3:13 PM UTC

2 out of 3 white women in Alabama will protect unborn but not born children

Last night, Democrat Doug Jones defeated accused serial pedophile Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate special election. It's beginning to look a lot like Resistance, eeeeeeverywhere you go... (^^^I stole…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 12, 2017, 8:53 PM UTC

Reminder to women and myself to forgive and be kind to ourselves and one another

Today I read Rebecca Solnit's essay "On women's work and the myth of the art monster" at Lit Hub, in which she defends art-making females against charges of selfishness. Today, in a private group of…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 11, 2017, 7:37 PM UTC

Addicted to shopping...for my son

I wrote this post two years ago yesterday on my blog another writing mom (when my son was barely 3, and when I was mommy blogging instead of being bowled over by memoir!). The boy and the presents ar…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 8, 2017, 6:12 PM UTC

Writers, should you compose on paper or screen? 3 ways to tell

Remember journals? Remember filling notebooks with drafts of poems and stories? Remember typing them all up when you were sure they were “finished”? Or do you still keep those journal and notebooks?…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 4, 2017, 6:53 PM UTC

What's a very good weekend look like to you?

I had what I would call a very good weekend. Sometimes, when the weeks are so busy I spend more than one lunch break sobbing into my steering wheel or rage-vaping in the work bathroom (where there's…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 1, 2017, 6:20 PM UTC

On gratitude for my creative ability in a world that doesn't often value it

I don’t know about you, but as the end-of-year holidays approach, the largest and loudest feeling I feel is gratitude. The festive season and the longer nights make me cozy up to awareness of what I…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Dec 1, 2017, 6:08 PM UTC

Write every day with these 6 apps

If you’re a tech-loving writer who composes on screen but hasn’t explored the wide world of writing apps, you might be missing out on some ways to majorly boost your productivity, motivation, and ins…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Nov 29, 2017, 2:52 PM UTC

The 7,452nd way writing has saved my life

I might be prone to exaggeration, but only about the number 7,452, not about the fact that writing has saved me on numerous occasions. I was a lonely kid who got yelled at a lot, and who spent most o…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Nov 21, 2017, 3:04 PM UTC

Separating the art from the artist? Nope. Not anymore.

I'm a writer, and writers sometimes do shitty things, so the issue of whether or not we can separate the art from the artist is one that's been on my radar for some time. We, as a society, examine th…

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Stacia M. Fleegal
@shapeshifter43 Nov 20, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

My DIY mini writing retreat

On Friday, I took a vacation day and checked into a hotel to write. Go to a coffee shop, suggested more than one friend when I spent the better part of last month complaining about how being at home…

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