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Comment by Lisa Rivero on March 26, 2010 at 5:33am

Hello, all, and thank you, Lori, for the warm welcome! I have one son who is in his first year of college. A lot of my writing while he was growing up was about homeschooling. I'm having fun exploring the group discussions and look forward to participating.

Comment by Meg Waite Clayton on March 25, 2010 at 9:30am

Love the Jordan quote, Anjali! Reminds me of the Thomas Edison one: "I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work."

Comment by Hope Edelman on March 25, 2010 at 12:03am

Love those swag items! I am so totally buying the messenger bag to carry papers and books to my classes. Thanks to Victoria for putting it all together!

Comment by Kelli Swearingen on March 23, 2010 at 7:13pm

bought my t shirt!

Comment by She Writes Services on March 22, 2010 at 8:47pm

Hi there Mother Writer!

We love the swag shop Victoria created and encourage people to go shopping for a good cause! Kamy has her baseball style t-shirt, and Deborah is still figuring out what will work on her postpartum bod but has her eye on a few different items. Join them in supporting an awesome group and a hugely important cause!

Meanwhile, we know a lot of you have a great idea for a book, but are wondering how to pitch it to agents and publishers. Or maybe you've even written a book proposal that isn’t selling. If this is you, the She Writes Team wants to be sure you know about our next webinar, WRITE A NONFICTION BOOK PROPOSAL THAT SELLS, slated for March 31 from 1-2pm ET, with author Christina Baker Kline. Christina is an experienced book proposal consultant to both nonfiction and fiction writers, and SW Founder Kamy Wicoff will be hosting.

There's much more about it here.

All best,
The She Writes Team

Comment by E Victoria Flynn on March 22, 2010 at 12:17pm

Mother Writer! has hit a snag. We're at $80 raised for Doctors Without Borders. Swag will only be for sale until the end of march. Can we reach $100? http://www.cafepress.com/MotherWriter

Comment by Anjali Enjeti on March 22, 2010 at 8:59am

Love the "ten years" quote.

Here's another quote I love -- not specific to writing, but successes and failures. It's by Michael Jordan, the NBA player:

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Comment by Meg Waite Clayton on March 22, 2010 at 8:42am

>but it has been worth it!

amen amen amen!

Comment by Rebecca Rasmussen on March 22, 2010 at 8:40am

I agree - it takes a long time of fumbling around before you get it "right" so to speak. Ten years! Seems a long time to plug away, but it has been worth it!

Comment by Meg Waite Clayton on March 22, 2010 at 8:37am

>A friend of mine once said it takes ten years to get published and everyone must put in their time

I've heard this statistic to get a book published many times. And when I read Malcolm Gladwells Outliers - 10,000 hours to be great at anything - that sounded about right. Took me ten years to get a first novel published, another five to get a second. Only 2-1/2 for my third, though (to be published in Jan), which was as fast as I could write it.

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