Good Stuff for Writers, 6/29

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Hiya writers,

I took the day off yesterday because it was unbearably hot here in Portland, Oregon, and trying to write seemed futile. Instead, I went to the coast where it was 30 degrees cooler. A friend and I camped in a thick forest of Douglas firs and woke up to rain pattering our tents.

These past few days I’ve been thinking a lot about how we balanc…