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  • ...usual, Brooke. What about this self-destructive refusal by the different publishing factions to coexist peacefully? This "there can be only one" attitude from the old Highlander serie...
  • Hi Toi, I like your attitude and think a healthy dose of optimism along with a thick skin is mandatory! :)
  • ...meless woman that I return to her family in Italy. It's a feel-good story but I'm convinced some people won't see it that way. Bring 'em on is my attitude now. 
  • Daya, I actually think this is a good attitude, and you can build slowly. You don't have to engage 24/7 in the craziness of being too connected. I'm sure it's not healthy for us. I act...
  • ...is sort of my point. It is the new paradigm and there's not much we can do about it. I really don't mind the venting, but I do mind the woe-is-me attitude that so many writers have abo...
  • Veronica, just from reading your enthusiastic response, I have a feeling you will be your book's best marketing friend! With a friendly, contagious attitude like yours, you can't go wrong. 
  • ...er of solitude and the company of dogs. But also enjoy the people I know. It's the strangers I'm not sure about. But I am working on adopting the attitude of a friend of mine who has,...
  • ...riend who teaches screenwriting at NYU, and she has described something similar to me -- how powerfully one student's negative, bored or critical attitude can derail her as a teacher,...
  • ...t be seen as worthy. This does not surprise me in a culture in which women's experiences are considered small or "taboo." I see this internalized attitude toward our own subjects as a...
  • ...Sometimes I get bogged down by the day-to-day details of life and I forget just how much of my work has been published, and how I've grown in my attitude towards myself as a writer. A...