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Dear Reader,
One of my email rules is that if I get up in the middle of the night, I don't check my email.
Good news, bad news, either way whatever I read it will probably interfere with me getting back to sleep. So when I woke up a little before three the other night--couldn't sleep because I was feeling anxious--the first thing I did was check my email. (I'm a willpower wimp in the middle of the night.)
But this time I was glad I wimped out and broke my rule, because when I was staring at my computer screen, an email from a friend popped into my box. Once a month my friend Sully sends out a newsletter. He's an author and it's one of those emails that I like to save for when I have time to sit and savor it, because he's an unusual character (a bit strange, like me) and the stories he spins, make you dig deep into your soul. And this newsletter didn't disappoint. But before my friend signed off, he mentioned that he'd just finished writing his latest book. So I jotted a quick, "Congrats--want to hear all about it--will call you in the morning" email and hit the SEND key.
A minute later my phone rang. I don't know what you do when your phone rings at three in the morning, but I immediately looked down to see what I was wearing (is this one of my good nightgowns?) because I figured I was heading to the Emergency Room. Why else do you get a call at three in the morning? But it was Sully, "Hey, figured you hadn't went to bed yet either."
"Well not exactly," I replied. "I was feeling anxious, couldn't sleep, so I was up wandering around the house. But now since my phone rang at three in the morning, my anxiety has completely subsided."
It's a different kind of conversation at three in the morning. No hurry, nowhere to go, (not interrupted by phone calls from normal people). So what do crazy writers talk about at three in the morning? Books and writing. Paragraphs that drive you crazy. Sentences that should take a few minutes to write, but instead they take an hour--because you're searching for just the right word. We commiserated on how lazy writers can be sometimes--looking for any diversion so we don't have to sit down and start writing.
And then we moved on to the subject of naps. Sully takes a lot of naps, which is why he was wide awake at four in the morning (we'd been talking for an hour). Me, I don't take naps, which is why I was starting to nod off, finally free from anxiety, with the help of my 3 a.m. friend.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
Suzanne Beecher
Suzanne@DearReader.com
http://www.DearReader.com
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