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How to love a writer, by Deborah Jenkins

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This post is for the significant other(s) in your life and is best read loudly while they're washing up/asleep/filled with gratitude after you've finished some loathsome task e.g. cleaning the car. It might also work when you've just announced recent earnings from an article/book/premium bond thereby contributing to the family income. Description The writer is one of the most colourful and unpredictable members of the species known as homo sapiens . A direct translation of the Latin homo sapiens  is 'wise man' and the translator no doubt had the writer in mind when this was first recorded in English. Obviously, there are many writers who are women, particularly in the Christian Writing World, so some could argue that here,  wise woman  would be more appropriate. But wise person no doubt covers us all. Sensitive and thoughtful, the writer is usually a gentle, compassionate soul but do not be fooled! Writers can be capricious and moody, prone to sudden outbur...