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  • My freshman-in-college daughter came to me today and stated, quite emphatically, "I don't think I am a writer!"  When I asked her why she felt that way, she informed m...
  • Deborah, I cried constantly from the first time I heard the news through Obama's speec...s. But when it's people I know personally and love deeply, I kick into 'brave' mode and remain solid as a rock, a...
  • Erika
    This is a great letter, thank you for posting. It also reads as a great writing prompt. I especially like the first and third paragraphs. Often I am encouraged to 'gro...
  • I have been using Scrivener for several years and I LOVE IT! It is the one writer's software that I have stuck with and I feel is beneficial to my writing process. Ive even recently ventured into finding a few Scrivener Templates online. Its a great product! Thanks for sharing this post. 
  • Oh, wow--I just did my "Countdown to Publication" post ("11 Days") on a VERY similar note, to the point of having a first draft that finished by declaring "What goes a...
  • Half-way through, I am enjoying Go Set A Watchman, though it is clearly a first draft. I only wish I could literally get Harper Lee in a critique group or even just a...
  • I enjoyed this post! Thanks. Photos are problematic for me as well. When I joined SW, I quickly discovered that I had no photo to put on my page. Okay, so I perhaps ex...
  • Thanks Kamy, for this excellent post. As another example of how co-operation on a book can work, I'd like to share my own experience with Gaza: Beneath the Bombs, publ...
  • Today...I think my writing heroines are the women I've written with in writer's groups. The Quills and, more recently, the NoveLists -- who provided not only safe envi...
  • Clarissa, that is a great point! My mother found her way into my first novel, and now of course here she is popping up in my second novel. There, by the shroud and gra...