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Steve Uppendahl's avatar

Damn, Ginger. This is so good and raw and relatable as fuck. I feel ya. Big time. Bleed on paper, bleeding passion, bleeding depression, and just plain ole bleeding...I feel that.

I love your honesty and rawness and your talent. (And your sense of humor.)

Keep on keeping on, GC. The last thing you are is alone.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

🥰😘 love ya, Steve

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Mark's avatar

I love how real and honest you were here. I think it's a cross many of us creatives bare.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

You’re so right. Thank you!

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D Watts's avatar

Beautiful. Haunting. Relatable. This is simply why you’re my favorite. So, SO good. 👏❤️‍🔥

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Watts, thank you, thank you 🙏🏻

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Mark Hayes's avatar

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

😂

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Richard Parker's avatar

I find that I encounter the most terrifying phantom of all when I write: mediocrity in my own estimation.

That is my burden to overcome.

I ought to know by now, from my stumbling progress in music, that if you wait until you’re good enough before you perform, you’ll never be good enough.

Besides, as Jack Kerouac puts it in “Mexican Loneliness”:

If I do nothing

Nothing does

So keep going. And I’ll finally get started.

Eventually. ❤️

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Wise, wise words, Richard. Thank you 🙏🏻

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Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

Ginger, if there is one thing you are not, that's a fraud. You're as real as it gets.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Thank you, friend. ❤️❤️❤️

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QuYahni B Joseph's avatar

Breaking my heart, love. Saying what I can’t say. And so beautifully 🥲

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

My girl! 😍 Thank you so much. I love ya

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Doug Bristol's avatar

Hella good.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

❤️❤️❤️

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Austin Allen Hamblin's avatar

I think a lot of writers struggle with these thoughts. If you’re asking yourself introspective questions like this about your writing I think it shows you care a lot.

I always hated the if you’re not miserable or beating your brains out for a story it’s not worth telling. Your work brings me joy. Keep it up!

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Austin, thank you! 😍

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VinylJunkieChris's avatar

Damn, G.

Awesome AF.

As always.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Matthew Schultz's avatar

Ginger, you know how to get to us! We feel what you write & though I’m no writer or will I ever claim to be, you are getting better & better at helping us feel what you’re going through. In my honest amateur opinion your writing is taking you & us to places we’ve never been. I believe confidence in yourself will get you over the top & even though you feel you’re holding back, we see where you’re going & can’t wait to make it to the peak with you! We all have our moments of holding back. We know it affects you because you care & want to be the best you can be. Chin up & keep climbing…we’re right here with you!

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

You are so good to me. ❤️

Thank you! Wow 😍

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Spine Garden's avatar

Let me get this straight…pizza is still on the menu? 🍕 👅

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Like, always

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Gabriel Baker's avatar

There's nothing wrong with holding a little bit of yourself back it's a safety mechanism that's built in definitely not you being a wuzzy and anything similar to that. You're not the only one having some depression this time of year, I had some last week myself because this holiday season has been different than the last 9 and it's definitely not my favorite either. Church has a lot of good lyrics, us Carolina boys seem to say a lot of what we think and don't usually have filters thank God!

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Always appreciate you! Another Carolina boy!

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Leonardo Wassilie's avatar

I had to go on this prescription for psilocybin for depression because nothing else worked.

Not sure if you can get a prescription or get the real thing in small doses, but it helps with the symptoms.

That and solo music like a piano or a violin. You have to play it loud to hear the way the bow strings slide off the violin strings

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Oh I’m on the things. And I do the work. But ya know, you still have moments. ❤️

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Patrick Eades's avatar

I like Mike's comment, totally agree. A little humour stops things from getting too bleak. I think you've got more guts than most, Ginger.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Thanks, pal. Means so much coming from you. ❤️

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Mike Knittel's avatar

you're one of the most honest writers here. but you do it with humor, to take the edge off the horror. I do that too. you're still bleeding, you're just painting the blood in cute colors sometimes so other people can digest it.

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Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Damn. ❤️ 🔥

Thanks, Mike 😍

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Mike Knittel's avatar

i meant to write “take the edge off the horror”, not “of the horror”..but you get the point :)

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