Wow, Marwa. This is really powerful. Thank you for sharing.

Way to go, Judith! Keep that energy up. I'm so excited for you. I'll be ghosting there -- not really taking part because I'm doing revisions, but I'll definitely keep tabs.... I'm rosedeniz on NaNoWriMo.

This is a great column, Tayari! Thanks for helping facilitate meeting points and milestones in completing a draft. I'm not there, yet, using this month as an early NaNoWriMo to crank out everything I've got in one month. So far for me, speed and not...

This was very interesting. Summer evenings are lavendar or faint aqua. I am so busy looking at what people are wearing that I can hardly hear what they're saying. Or I'm looking at how sharp their teeth are. Things like that. And feeling anxious....

Thank you, Gwyn, for your note! I've found that many people share some sort of perception quirk or heightened sensitivity that they may not comment upon because it doesn't seem extraordinary to them. It was only by comparison that I realized what I...