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Writing Serendipity

Does this ever happen to you? It happens to me at least once a week...

Today I'm editing a chapter with this passage in it...

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As a kid, my grandfather never asked about academics or talent. Work ethic was his measure of success. My father shared those values, and with each birthday, he found a new way to measure them.

“Okay, Marty, you’re ten now,” he said on my birthday. “If you want a toy, you go buy it. Okay?”

For 10-year-old me, that was a bummer. Now, I credit my ability to suffer in silence to those Gnoble men—your grandfather and great-grandfather.

Truth is, I’ve always enjoyed a hard day’s work.

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This is fiction, but also inspired by my own experience. I wrote this over a year ago and happen to be editing it today.

Then today, I looked at my Facebook memories and saw a post I made 13 years ago, the day after my grandfather passed away. [see attached]

Crazy right?

This happens to me once a week. Like the exact thing I'm working on (no matter when I wrote it) comes up quite specifically. Just wondering if this happens to anyone in your writing? Is it because our work is so all-encompassing?

Either way, it's so fun!

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