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  • Great strategies and genre labeling always tricky. One of my first short stories was pubbed in Latinos in Lotusland. The editor picked it because my heroine, while Spa...
  • She never knew why her mum did it, crept into his room to smash his hands his head. Blood bone mush. She knew from school every bad thing that could happen between men...
  • Kelly Kittel commented on her article Climbing Mt.Everest
    Thanks, Rossandra (do you have a nickname?!) Yes, this was way back when I had just penned what was possibly my first SW comment, which was snarky, and immediately off...
  • Profoundly moving, Mary. Even in the womb I think we can feel grief, right down in the furthest depths of our cells. I'm sure your book will help many, those experienc...
  • What I'm hearing here is great. It seems like most people are adapting NaNo to meet their own needs. This is my basic point about process. Like @Kimberly said, the que...
  • Good post! Life is full of more drama than we need, but we have to learn to deal with it and move on, and so must our characters and their situations. For that reason...
  • Everyone who has written knows that writing is a blood sport! And Suspended Sentence is a wonderful, gripping memoir! See my review on Amazon and Goodreads! www.dianaypaul.com
  • Love love love this discussion. As an adoptee (placed in 74) who met her birth family about 10...maybe on the surface, but I was adopted, then we'd have to answer if my brother was my "blo...
  • Hi Julie, I believe many writers are shy (so are many actors, they expose themselves behind a persona) and/or introverted and have a hard time exposing/expressing thei...
  • Gosh Tayari, why did you have to write this, bare your soul and poke me in mine?  Thanks anyway. I know when my own excuses don't cut it. I know when they stink to hig...