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  • I totally understand your frustration with social media. I just braved the social...rin advised me, you have to shift hats as a writer, shifting from creative mode to business mode. My main apprehension is maki...
  • Great advice, Elisabeth! Text sounds different on your ear than it does as you read si...uld read her work out loud at some point, and certainly while in late revision mode.
  • I totally choked on my coffee reading this. Thank you thank you thank you. May I add the following two of my own, please? And don't start me on having to correct peopl...
  • Dr. Kimmel actually wrote me personally today in response to this piece. I was shocked, but pleasantly so. Finding an e-mail from him in my inbox totally made my day.
  • Oh, the books in my head. And oh, the fear that if I put them on paper they won't be good enough. You describe the paralysis so perfectly. And Kenny, as fictitious as your idea of him probably was, is totally hot.
  • Marisel, I loved this post. I love that it only took a closet for you to feel you could have the dream, but let go of the feeling you could control the outcome! It's t...
  • I totally agree with all of you about the importance of reading. Jorge Luis Borges -whom if you haven't read I emphatically recommend- always said that before being a writer, he was a reader. I only hope we don't become an extinct species. I feel we are endangered already! Good reading, Mariana
  • I am totally an INTJ.  I have forced myself over the years to train myself to appear to be  more of an E, just because I have had to.  I think that extroverts are definitely rewarded here as elsewhere.  I certainly don't look forward to promoting my book when it is done, but I know that I can do it.
  • Yes, I totally agree. I feel like I do have more insight into my life now and I have grown and developed more as a woman. I realized how sometimes things happen in lif...
  • I totally agree.  With paper pages you can spread them out, kick them around, mark 'em up, read and reread, have multiple pages in front of you with no miniature screen windows.  And there's something about the physicality of it.  Of course, some editing takes place on the computer too--constantly!