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  • ...works for my physical and mental well-being...and beefs up my library collection to boot, but it also keeps my inbox filled with requests. While many authors want to collect as many reviews as possible,...
  • Good promises! Completing what I begin has been the greatest challenge. I have bits and fragments from writing during my working years. As a retiree, I'm now trying to collect and polish. And finish. And submit. Two books out already, and another one essentially finished.
  • I find that it helps me to collect a lot of artifacts that represent my character. I gather photos and clothing items and collectibles that seem to fit the cha...
  • Barbara Stark-Nemon, thanks for your thoughts on how "intimate ethnography" is at the heart of the writing projects of many of us.  "Threading the delicate needle" is a great way to describe how we collect stories about traumatic events.
  • ...tay-at-home mom.  In each place I found myself, I either found little ways to write on the job, read the Newbery's to my own kids or, better yet, collect a lot of stories for the time...
  • ...ements i like, so that i have handy visual references when having a conversation with a graphic designer. I will admit, i don't use Pinterest to collect or organize quotes or text-ba...
  • ...edback about gaps and plot issues right away. Then I edit the chapter. Then back to my critique group for another review. It's interactive and I collect all the notes they provide on...
  • ...ript is on track 1, so I need to get going with plans for presenting it. The cafe where I wrote it is first on my list, but would I be the one to collect orders? Do I need a credit ca...
  • ...Every single experience, moment, mistake, decision make us who we are and bring us to this very moment. Waiting tables is one of the best jobs to collect stories and write them (also...
  • ...d with a sorrowful rejection months and months later when their "needs" changed or your editor "disappeared".  4-6% royalties that took a year to collect...and the explanation of them...