Author: M.C. Allison
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Typed Up the New Version of My Novel. Now what?
In 2014, I shared a draft of my novel too early. It had typos. I attempted to write a dystopian erotica novel about skateboarding and ended up grossing out most of my beta readers. The structure alternated between skateboard scenes, sex scenes, skateboard scenes, sex scenes, and on and on for 60,000 words. That is…
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I’m Part of Generation X
Dear readers, As I age and things get harder to do physically, I wouldn’t trade the year I was born for a younger one. I can’t believe I haven’t blathered about Generation X on my blog before. I searched my archives and couldn’t see any posts on it. I’m sure on my older defunct blogs,…
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Paint 48 8×10’s and more NYE goals
Making fantastical New Year’s Eve goals has been a tradition of mine. That and my birthdays seem to be the times I let my imagination go wild. In 2024, I had a setback of a psychotic episode with nine days in the hospital. I have not bounced back with vigor yet, but I’m on track…
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Read and Absorb This Art Book on Van Gogh
Book: Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings by Ingo F Walther. ISBN: 978-3836557153 I bought this book on Van Gogh last May at a museum in Boston. I flipped through it, and then it sat on my bookshelf for a while. When I got psychosis in early August, I did not paint much. In October, I…
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Schizo-Affective or Bipolar, Does it Matter? And updates.
Four months have passed since I was hospitalized for nine days. As I posted before, I called the EMT on myself. The experience in the hospital was much better than in 2016 because I was compliant, and I knew I had a problem. Insomnia triggered it, and this time around, I did not have delusions…
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I May Not Publish Anything Until I Retire, and I’m only 47
After some thought, I decided I’m not going to try to publish anything for a while. I always liked the fact that the author Frank McCourt did not publish memoirs until he retired in his 60s, after a career as a teacher in the Bronx. I mentioned this as I think memoirs in general are…
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Game Changer for the better, calling EMT on Myself twice in 3 days.
The religious trinket above may have given me a sleepless night on Thursday, July 25th. But a good sleepless night filled with thought. Basically, at a restaurant in Howard beach late at night a kind stranger overheard my conversation with a friend. He ended up telling this stranger we were here because I was having…