"I took an on-line writing course through Stanford University and found it less than inspiring. I put this down to the on-line medium itself--the lack of face-to-face contact, the miscommunication about how the course worked, the isolation. (No…"

"Just my luck to miss one of Karen's delicious goodies! Minor family crisis kept me away. Good to see you on Facebook, too, Skipper."

"Try thinking of what the Indian author R.K. Narayan said, "One becomes a writer by writing. It is a yoga." That at least takes care of the yoga. Not, however, the donuts!"

"Try China Mieville's Perdido Street Station, Scar, and an entertaining mystery called The City and the City. My husband's reading Iron Council and enjoying it. Mieville tells epic, twisted, intelligent, compulsively readable stories."

"Glad to have you join us in the Novelist – Struggling or Not group, Shelley. You might jump in by telling us what you’re working on in the “Show Me Your Novel and I’ll Show You Mine” discussion. I’ll look forward…"

"Daphne, I'm a fiction writer and new member of She Writes. How do I join the fiction writers group?"

"Hello, Megan. I got my library degree from UC Berkeley in 1980 (which by your picture I would say is before you were born). The public library has been a favorite hangout of mine since I was a kid. I worked in business libraries for most of my…"

"The first writers' workshop I went to was run by the novelist Barbara Shoup. She had us read the story "How to tell a true war story" from The Things They Carried. I go back to it when I get stuck. I'm writing historical fiction;…"