The best advice I got on memoir was from Brooke's webinars on memoir. It helped me completely reshape my book. The main takeaways I got were, "What are you teaching in...
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It's a cultural reference I suppose. People who speak in the same manner as I do, with the southern/New York accent mix only New Orleans people can accomplish are refe...
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Beautifully done! In regards to the generational theme, it occurs to me that forty years ago the options for birth were limited namely go to the sterile hospital room...
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I agree that no book should be censored—not only removing the offensive word would amount not only to an attempt to "prettify history" but also to an acknowledgment of...
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This is one of my pet peeves, too. I also have long referred to it as random capitalization. I worked at a community newspaper for years and the things people sent in...
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My daughter at age 19 started having chronic abdominal pain that was totally debilitating--often she could not even stand up straight and had to spend much of her time...
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I followed up on 12/6/13 with this letter after a fax, a mailed letter and email were ignored. This was also ignored so I will not be returning the the Child Center. ...
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Yes, hang onto the "deleted" material. Maxine Kumin referred to the poems and bits of writing that she discarded as her "box of bones" that she could always return to...
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I see that you wrote this a couple years ago, but I just go a SheWrites email that referred me to it and I'm glad for that. Great stories, great thoughts here. I use a...
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