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I'm A Writer & I Am A Hoarder


Last week I moved out into the country.  A brand new trailer.  I now have my own office.  I should be happy, excited and ready to write.  I am overwhelmed.

I have a lot of stuff.  The last place I lived, I lived for 15 years.  I wrote a lot in long hand.  I saved everything I wrote  in longhand and that I typed.  Magazines, newspapers and scribbled notes.  I saved them all. 

I was unpacking and putting things in the closet that I wanted to keep.  The closet is filled.  I looked around and had no place to put any of the things I am currently working on.  I still have no room.

I am a Hoarder. 

I am overwhelmed. 

When I met my boyfriend fifteen years ago.  He helped me overcome my hoarding problem then.  I threw a lot of things away, but kept a lot and over the fifteen years, I have collected a more. 

I want this time to be different.  I want a nice place to live.  A place to write, where I can find what I need.

Am I crazy or do other writer's save everything they write? 

If you save everything you write, where do you keep it all?

My boyfriend is out burning my writing as I write this. 

Leave a comment, let me know what you do with all the things that you collect for your writing, like research, future ideas and notes jotted down.


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