This week's highlights from The Community Blog.

Maddie Dawson continues her own Countdown to Publication by swearing off five things (like obsessively checking one's Amazon numbers) she WON'T do pre- or post-publication.

Tayari Jones has a brilliant idea for you novelists out there struggling to capture character and voice: Keeping A Journal in the Voice of a New Character.

Sarah Irving raises the thorny question of unpaid internships that may (or may not) exploit writers, inspired by a posting for such a position in London.

Rachel Kramer Bussel rings in her 35th bday with a new erotica anthology, Passion: Erotic Romance for Women, and tells us all about it on her She Writes blog.

And poet, blogger and spoken word artist Amy Mattison meditates on the difference between luck and effort (maybe there isn't one) in her post Creative Diligence, Or How Good Luck Happens.

Finally, don't miss some of the essays submitted to the Mother Writer! contest about what it means to be a mother and a writer:

Debby Carroll writing about giving birth to pages instead of children.

Christi Craig writing about integrating her mother/writer selves in The Whole of Me.

Lanita Andrews making her brave and beautifully written essay her debut as a writer (in public -- congratulate her!).

Susan Bearman asking Mother/Writer? or Writer/Mother?, and invoking the chicken and the egg.

Ashlei Austgen writing about the painful adjustment from morning person to nocturnal mother-writer in her quest to find the quiet time she needs to write.

That's all for this week! Thanks, as ever, for contributing your ideas, your insights and your words to She Writes.