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. 🧹🏛🧹
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Every time I finish a story's outline I feel an incredible sense of accomplishment, immediately followed by the heavy acknowledgment that the real work is about to begin. People are about to inhabit the house I built, and I know only some of the faucets and light switches and fireplaces will work. If my premise doesn't hold up, they'll find water in the basement. And that charming scalloped chair molding? That will have to go. It's too cute, too clever to survive these rowdy tenants. I've learned all you can do is pray you built a pretty good house, and have the skills and stamina to make her truly livable. Welcome home, weirdos. 🙌📚🙌
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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 ...

In just eight quick years, you, too, can become a creative and productive morning person!

(Factors galore, but I swear, that's actually how long it took for me to achieve quality work before 4pm. Can anyone relate?! 🌞🤟🏼)

Reformed Night 🦉 Support Group in the works.... ...