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I am an introvert and must agree that this article is largely inclusive of those things by which I identify myself. It's not something I intended but rather a condition that life thrust upon me. As the child of an abusive father, I retreated into my own head and discovered a storyteller who protected me with tales of worlds far better than the one in which I lived. It became my role in life to explore the outside world to collect people for my internal storyteller. Thus, I avoided becoming a recluse (which is the extreme, unhealthy version of an introvert). The stories I now write are not mine, but rather the creative product of that internal storyteller. I'm just the typist.
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Thanks for sharing such personal words. The graph about writing caught me off guard. Before ETS, I'd have never expected to enjoy the challenge of fine-tuning my thoughts into words as I'm a much better writer than speaker, though that means little.
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SGT (Join to see) - Spoken words slip too easily from the lips and cannot be edited. That which I publish most frequently has been edited beyond recognition from the first draft
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No Trailblaze = Future
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