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  • I believe that part of the problem lies in the perception of the issue as a "block." I...ur subconscious, which happens more easily when the brain is in a more relaxed mode.
  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • Kelly -- Thanks so much for this description of your journalistic-memoiristic mode.  All fascinating.  I think it...
  • Since my novel came out (The Night Counter, Three Rivers Press 2010), it has gotten ve...on't love to hear themselves talk, putting them into a weird split personality mode. As an example of the marketi...
  • Michele, this morning I listened to the teleconference phone call you posted on your c...women's studies at Georgia State University (1998) and going into a different mode of my life. Now I have discov...
  • Cogent and well-argued, Kamy. I think  the hard cover/profit issue for the big publishers is key for authors to understand where their book fits in this new landscape....
  • Hi Lanita, This is really fairly informal. As long as the subject line is as specified the email can appear as you like. Everyone so far has had their name in the email. It is also nice to see a word count. Hope to see your essay soon!
  • Hello, Brooke.  Many good points, as always.  Meanwhile, though, this is a note about a writer having phrases in their messages which seem to have meaning, yet don't,...
  • Interesting post... The first thing you may want to consider doing is referring to yourself as a Black author. For example, I am an author - who happens to be Black. I...
  • Meg Bortin commented on her article Is This a True Story?
    Carol, you raise a tricky point. Of course anyone can find out who Mona Venture is - especially because the book is a memoir written in the first person, and my real n...