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  • Love your writing and welcome to our group. I'm fairly new and just love it here. Amey Shannon Wagner said:Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to She Writes. I joined becaus...
  • "Violet skies canopy over the ocean." Beautiful line, very poetic. Does not, however, compel me to read onward, because it does not carry a sense of story, something b...
  • Ah yes. The somebody-said-somebody-said dilemma. I suffer from it all the time. Good advice from this direction, more advice from that direction -- how's a body to kno...

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    Hi Juanita! Thank you for connecting with me here on SheWrites. I have enjoyed your writing and look forward to reading more. At the moment I have been caught up in...
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  • "It hurts then to love. It is like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin" -- Susan Sontag
  • I started writing in my forties too.  It was strange, I always loved to read but writing my own stories seemed impossible.  Then I had twins and I swear that it is tru...
  • Great post, Brooke. My skin is thicker than when I published my first book, but it's still hard to be hated on when you aren't expecting it. We must never let another person steal our joy or our self-respect. To me, support is the key (and you've been among my supporters). Thanks for this reminder.