So maybe you're a writer and you think you have friends. Here's how to check. Tell them you're on deadline and the electricity is out in your office. If they hand over the keys to their home without hesitation, congratulations! You have the best friend a writer can ever, ever have. Treat them like gold, acknowledge them in print when possible, and resist filling your Yeti with their high-end booze. (At least until you've hit "send.") @slipkin22 💋#abbeyclelandlopez ...

I live in a house. I am someone's wife. And occasionally, when Anthony works overnight, and the children are finally asleep, and the words begin to swim on the page, alerting me I may begin doing more harm than good, I sneak up to the guestroom and turn on Fiona or Tori or Tracy or Joni or Amy or Carly and end up looking something like this. I've never identified as a "housewife," but I'm thinking it's reasonable that these components [ house + wife + occasional throwback beauty habit ] fit me squarely in this demo, this demo that OUR White House's worst-ever tenant assumes supports his racist policy. But here's the thing, the "housewives" I know, you know, married women in houses who may also occasionally wear curlers -- this must be the definition, right? I'll ask Betty Friedan and Matthew Weiner later -- we are ambitious, critical-thinking, open-minded, big-hearted types with soft bellies and sharp talons. We read. We analyze. We feel. We DO. We contribute more value to the people in our care the first hour of any given morning than he has all term, and likely all his life. We don't like messes because we are the ones who do the picking up. What a monstrous deplorable mess this insecure toddler has made. I've always loved witches, in part because of their dope wheels (🧹), but now I'm thinking it's a powerful symbol witches and housewives share. I, generally and specifically, LOVE people and LOATHE politics. Because of this very dilemma, November can't come soon enough. Brooms up, ladies. 🧹🏛🧹
#broomsup #womenwritersofinstagram #whenweallvote #witchesunite #voteearly #abbeyclelandlopez #peacelovevote #writinglife #614artist #votingmatters #votevotevote ...

Packed most of the house nary a pause/thought/reflection, until this moment, in sacred #fionaapple sweats, blasting #daisythegreat , removing titles from shelves. Heart juuust caught up to mind/body/calendar. Wild.

(And don't worry, babies. You're all coming along. 📚📚📚)

#bookstagram #booksy #shelfie #fortheloveofbooks #writersofig #writeon #writerwoman #abbeyclelandlopez #fictionwriting #blondeambition #dropeverythingandread ...

Messy Life Moment calls for:

cat nap, coffee, snacks, a fave sweatshirt, washable shoes, not giving an eff about your hair, ignoring your phone,

THEN,

slowly float to the ceiling to picture yourself from above as some colorblind, benevolent, omniscient force may -- or, if it resonates better for you -- a security camera only programmed to record fleeting moments of love.

Take in this view, this view with you in it, in black and white; this is to say, in simple big brushstroke shapes and lines.

Suddenly, just a few feet higher, just a few shades fewer, you are not a mess. You are not even IN a mess.

You are a protagonist on a noble, timeless journey.

And now, back on the mortal ground floor, even you must admit: it's all actually quite beautiful.

#perspective #gratitude #writinglife #momlife #mondaymotivation #writerslife #writeon #keeploving #keepsmiling #keepmoving #keepon #freewriting #writerwoman #abbeyclelandlopez #tinymomentsofslow #stopglorifyingbusy ...

End of a long day on set.
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Some like it hot; some like it hungover. Absolutely refusing to take myself too seriously these days. #marilynmonroe #blondeambition #writinglife #happylife #abbeyclelandlopez ...