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I know these are your burning questions. Itβs about time I answered them!
You: Are you still on target with your fiction book?
Me: Nope. In the non-writing world, a company I work with lost a huge amount of data. It took them six weeks to recover it. So, Iβm six weeks behind, plus I have to go through all the recovered files to make sure they havenβt been corrupted. Can you say fun summer?
You: Whatβs your favorite fruit?
Me: Lemon is great, yet grapefruit is my top pick! Itβs the best.
You: Who was your most interesting neighbor?
Me: The who is actually a what, a bull. When I was a kid, the place that abutted our backyard had a bull. Those neighbors also had chickens that would βhop the fenceβ to lay their eggs in our yard.
You: Have you ever been chased by a mountain lion?
Me: Wow, thatβs a weirdly specific question, but yes, yes I have. Quite some time ago, we were driving from Zion to Bryce Canyon (two National Parks in Utah) around midnight. We were camping at Bryce and visited Zion during the day. Beautiful leisurely drive, straight shot, warm summer evening, amazing starsβlet me stop for a moment and tell you we were in a Jeep with the top off. Glowing eyes caught my attention, coming fast, getting bigger. I donβt condone speeding, but yeah, I yelled, βFloor it!β That kitty cat chased us down the highway! She gave up, but I was shaky till morning!
You: Do you have any newsletter pet peeves?
Me: Why yes I do! I loathe when itβs addressed to me. It creeps me out. I know itβs being sent to a lot of people, which makes it feel disingenuous. In Substack, I donβt like newsletters that have a βsubscribe to the paid versionβ listed multiple times in the newsletter. Once is more than enough. Itβs a big turnoff.
What are your newsletter pet peeves?
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Learning all the trips and tricks about how newsletters works can drive me a bit nuts when it comes to sending my own. I think about all those people who don't know those things and I want to tell them so they can see how it's being used to make them act and stuff. lol
I haven't been chased by a mountain lion, but I've had a kitty-cat standoff on a trail. We both decided it wasn't worth it tangle. Actually, I did. The cat just got bored.