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  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • I am from Montana, a geological and linguistic neighbor to South Dakota. Everything you have written here resonates with my heart. I have always had an intense interes...
  • I wish you all the best with your book, Rita!  As a long-time writing instructor and writer, I've learned that writers are just  different, at a very basic level.  If...
  • Deborah, "My daughter was an artist and a writer and now she's a gardener," my mother said of me. She who had always expected me to be something I was not —yet— seemed...
  • I have the most basic of Kindle e-readers, and I use it every day. Well, night, actually. I like to read in bed before going to sleep and holding the Kindle while recl...
  • Deborah – Thank you so much for asking. My summer has been one long reallocation of my mental and physical energies. While I may exit the office, stray into places in...
  • Thanks for your interesting questions.  Firstly, I carry two pens (after my pen went dry when I was in the middle of writing down something descriptive, waiting for my...
  • Thanks, Roxanne! This is a good plan, whether it is for the NaNoWriMo or for a writing life in general. I have never used a writing software program and have resisted...
  • Julie, I once read many, many years ago that everything has been written about before; done before...but it's HOW YOU WRITE IT FROM YOUR PERSPECTIVE with your own voic...
  • Nope, to me it still wouldn't be funny even if it weren't so infuriating. From his failing to capitalize Ms. Wasserstein's name in the subject line. to his complete as...