That Place You Love: Real People. Real Stories.
Round-Up on Habit; Next-Up Luck. Welcome New Subscribers & Steps to Launch!
Way back when…
you either worked at Kinko’s or had a friend who worked at Kinko’s.
In the 1980s/90s art, music, and graffiti scenes, Kinko’s churned out thousands of pages of chap books, indie zines, collages, tags on stickers, color/black & white images on thick card stock, and fluorescent paper.
The keyboard player and singer in my band Runway Model was a night manager at the famed copy shop. She printed our full-color show flyers, 3-fold demo cassette tape inserts, and stickers for free.
Long before the launch of That Place You Love, I knew I wouldn’t have a transaction shadow over a creative community. It’s just not my way.
TPYL would have to be free to be you & me.
I quickly realized that stories shared by Contributors in the Comments section would make a unique blend of distinct voices unified by the shared theme/prompt to which they were writing.
And so… I’m on the path of creating a Zine online… for FREE.
If you’re reading this for the first time…
And want to know more about the ZINE’s mission, go to ABOUT or FORUM on the Substack platform or read the introductory post I WAS AN EASY LIAR.
If you contributed during the first 16 weeks, I’ll be in touch about publishing in the first anthology ZINE.
Look for an email soon from: publish@thatplaceulove.com
Looking for artwork, too! More to come…
Round Up on Habit & New Prompt - Luck - below!
6 Contributors weighed in on HABIT:
I wrote about muscle memory and physical & mental re-patterning as a way to turn a HABIT into a strength.
(in order of appearance)
Lisa St. J wrote about her habit of tolerating pain until someone pointed it out; a habit can only be broken when you want to break it.
Carole D shared four types of habit: Upholder, Questioner, Obliger, Rebel, and while all may overlap, we are still creatures of habit.
Zig revealed a habit of sighing, a family trait often confused with dissatisfaction and criticism, when really a new habit of breathing with intention does the trick.
Melissa S wrote about repetition as an approach for breaking old habits and forming new ones, even for those of us who didn’t take easily to routine.
Intact Animal wrote about the ritual of giving his dog bite-sized treats at designated times, like an agreement between two habit-loving beings.
Shirlé questioned the social habit of drinking, its time & place correlation, and why water is just not as exciting as ye olde brew.
Contributor Autumn went back to week 16 to rake wealth over the coals when writing about MONEY.
READ & HEART these writers & SHARE your own story in the comments.
Next Up: Luck
On Monday, I’ll write about LUCK through the lens of truth and see what I come up with as a prompt.
When we take qualifying words like Bad, Good, Beginner’s, Dumb, and Blind out of the equation, we’re left with Luck on its own.
Does something need to be completed for it to count as luck?
What if luck is only part of a longer process?
Consider where LUCK takes you and share on Monday!
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Have a great weekend.
Sincerely, for real.
Michelle