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  • Ah, the intorverted writer finds herslef in a crowd, I know the scenario well.  The ve...ple I don't know I still have the tendency to be a wallflower. I'm in observer mode afterall. But, I now teach wr...
  • Michele, this morning I listened to the teleconference phone call you posted on your c...women's studies at Georgia State University (1998) and going into a different mode of my life. Now I have discov...
  • Joanne S. Frye reminds us that Virginia Woolf said "life has no plot."  Must a memoir have a plot?  I think so.  Do you agree? 
  • Thanks for your response, Brooke, and for clarifying. it's very difficult to self-judg...ell our books, it's not because of discrimination; it's became of the business model. They get stuck with books t...
  • It CAN Happen Here The American so-called “democratic” so-called “election” has shocked and stunned the world. I too have found this bizarre turn of history beyond my...
  • Great blog, Emily! I knew Virginia Woolf once said men considered war a far more important subject for writers than domesticity--but count on you to trace it back to Virgil.
  • Virginia - I think your instincts are on the money in appreciating the fact that your dad pulled the car over and let you "walk in it", instead of dismissing your dema...
  • I like that, "Jane of all trades". It is quite a colorful list. I especially like sharing stories of when we were stationed in Japan and I worked for 8 mos. at a local...
  • This worked for me: ask friends to have a book parties and ask your local bookstore to sell books at the parties. It's a win win for all and lots of fun.
  • @Virginia -- I love your blog!  The recent post on shepherding "The Mothers' Group" to publication is wonderful.  Thanks for sharing the post about titles.  I want to read "500 Acres and No Place to Hide" now...