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Writers are Sexy!

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Paul Whybrow

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To cheer us up, here's an article about how wonderfully sexy we all are....

7 reasons writers are sexy | Articles | Main

I know that none of you will disagree with it, though I've got to say that after recently finishing two months of editing my second novel I felt about as sexy as a floor mop!

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She took me to the cleaners, that's for sure. When we divorced, she got the house and car, and, in the unlikely event that I ever have children with another woman, she gets those too!

As Spike Milligan observed in his poem The Food of Love:

Four years she ate my dinners

Four years she drank my wines

And all the while

I was nourishing her

For some other crummy swines
 
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