I went to AWP this year for the first time. With 6-90 minute sessions per day, I attended 16! Loved every minute of it and will be blogging about it soon at loisroelofs.com Thanks for this recap. I loved the coffee line, too, but found myself...
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Oh my, dredging up memories. My mother threw me a surprise 16th birthday party. I was so embarrassed because I was certain that all those kids would not have come otherwise. Years later, I wrote the story from her point of view and I was able to...
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Thanks, Chris, for your comments. I found it took many years after a painful incident in my life to write about it, but once I did, all buried pain was gone, just like that! And now that pain experience is being helpful to my readers. Thanks for...
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This is my first time doing the November novel also. I started only with two characters in mind. My first line: "Sophie slammed her pen down on the table. Why, she thought, does cancer have to visit us again? "
I especially like your "notebook"...
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I've just discovered this discussion and it's just what I need to get back on track. I decided to try the November novel this year for a distraction from a family illness. I've had to take a few days off, the family illness is turning out much...
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Please add me to October's list. Lois Roelofs' career memoir Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self. Thanks! My book came out last week.
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