If you find that being needed is more important to you than being loved, if you?ve been exposing yourself or others to emotional violence, if you are the victim (or the perpetrator) of domestic abuse ? it?s time for your suffering to end Issues with codependency, emotional violence, and domestic abuse are often produced early in life when a child?s upbringing includes influences that hindered their personal development

Most of us want to have a best friend, it is important to know a person that you can be close with and trust I first met my best friend while playing baseball in high school, he was the pitcher and I the catcher

We were married five years and our marriage was almost perfect I needed a lot of sex and my wife provided it

There are millions of things to write about, picking one of them is easy I like to write about what I find interesting and also has a chance of helping some reader get through an otherwise boring day

Upon graduating high school the first thing I had to do was look for a job Through an ad in the newspaper I set up an interview for a job as a driver for a diaper service company

Female bodyguards are being employed in larger numbers They are proving to be more useful than the old style version of a macho protector

We don't hook a reader with logical exposition, flat narration or argument We must get to the part of the reader's life that is involuntary, automatic: the five senses and mood/emotion

If readers can't identify with, care about, or somehow share the feelings of the characters, despite a perfect plot and poetic prose, the story is likely to bomb Readers must respond to the characters viscerally, with sympathy or antipathy, early on

PART 1: WRITER'S BLOCK From Rita Jamison's Freelance Writing Class; Adult Education, Los Altos, CA, 2005 At one time or another we all experience "writer's block" We have ideas

From Rita Jamison's Freelance Writing Workshop; Adult Education, Los Altos, CA, 2005 Your plot's great Your theme is awesome