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  • Deedra and Ellen, I'm in the same boat. I really need to market a book that's out. I also really need to do final edits and start shopping around one that's essentiall...
  • Brava, JoAnn Smith Ainsworth! That is truly encouraging. I had been a "closet writer" before retiring, but had only published a few short stories. Since retirement, I'...
  • Oh my word, I needed this. Like many others, I've been on Twitter for I don't even know how long, but I'm essentially a Twitter idiot. Now that my book is being releas...
  • This was interesting to read as I had not considered doing this, write across differences, until just recently. I always thought that being authentic (to myself) was c...
  • I'm confident you have the skills to weave your two threads into a single narrative . . . and yet, it may depend on your approach, especially with your item #1.  If yo...
  • As I am writing a memoir (my first) the whole premise is essentially egotistical, ;) I don't think I hold back emotionally as I generally hold truth in the hightest re...
  • @Liz...You bring up so many valid points here. I'd like to expand on each of them, because they are so important. Regarding those well-known authors who, in your words...
  • I do have a sense of humor, and a sense of irony. Today I happened to read "So You're Going to a Writers' Conference!", essentially a report of what the writer did on her summer vacation. It's a genre that sells! She was in my workshop at Bread Loaf last year. I'm the womn with the pins on her hat.
  • Fascinating question and love the comments too! I note most comments are from self-declared introverts (of which I'm one too!). Could it be that writing fiction is ess...
  • When I was a graduate student working on my first book, and at a moment when I'd just realized that what I'd done was all wrong, and I was essentially going to have to...