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  • Teaching is an important part of my passion for writing. It's wonderful to pass on writing tools, and every time I teach I learn something I can use in my own work. An...
  • Margaret, we have something in common. It was my 10th grade English teacher who inspir...ent from yours. She encouraged me to read fiction, and those stories became my model. I wanted to write like the...
  • Sharon - I hear you! After blogging every week (sometimes multiple times a week) for five years, I slowed down a little bit this year. I plan to ramp up again soon, but sometimes we need to take a little break. I'm glad these tools are useful. 
  • Listen, why are we surprised? The "canon" is still mostly white men, dead white men. I rebel against this by deliberately choosing a new canon for my students, one tha...
  • Kate, thank you for reading my first chapter. I may soon put up a second one.  I was touched by this post of yours because it is true - how we look at our past changes...
  • I'm just doing the last read of my memoir before it goes to press and I love the way you talk about calling up memory and using tools to help…photographs are a wonderf...
  • Overwhelming. And not JUST because of the technology or the fact that our audience is not within arm's length, but because the time to master it all and play with the...
  • @Sandra - Although I think it's OK to break the "rules" (within reason), I do think that too many people think it's OK to simply ignore things like grammar and punctua...
  • Wow, this post generated so much negativity.  In the 30+ years I've been networking, I've learned one thing:  I get out what I put in.  If I avoided all interactions t...
  • Diane, and Katherine, thank you. What a smart and thought-provoking exchange. And thank you, too, for your thoughts on identifying as a "woman writer," or being labele...