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Writers Must Write, Even When it Hurts

  By Tammy Karasek   Writers are often seen tapping on keys or writing in journals in all sorts of corners at coffee shops, park benches, and the like. I’m often one of them, and if you’re reading this post, I’m probably not wrong when I think you are one of them as well.   I’ve spent time tucked into a corner writing on a current fiction story or two that beg for attention. I tune out the noise of the establishment and work away. My non-writing husband often asks why I can crank out words there, but can’t do the same thing at home. It blows his mind how noisy a coffee shop is and can’t understand how I can ignore those noises. I laugh and tell him it’s because they aren’t my noises. Yes, I sometimes notice them, but I don’t have to jump up and take care of them. It doesn’t belong to me, not my problem.   In a recent discussion about this, he admits it still boggles his mind about tuning out those surroundings and their odd sounds. Then I said something to him that actua

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