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  • I know just what you mean by feeling bruised - I get that now when I go back to MO to visit - St. Louis, anyway. The small town I grew up in, Ste. Genevieve, was rathe...
  • I so identify with your quandary. I always go back to my mantra: Trust the writing. If the wall exists, it's okay to admit that there are parts of the memory that are...
  • Hi Angela--I found in writing my memoir that the parts that I didn't want to write--likely because they were too painful--were the parts that absolutely had to be incl...

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    I have been writing forever, due to a frustrated desire to communicate but never getting it RIGHT. I wanted to be understood. That drove me. My subject is Nature, a...
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    Allow me to introduce myself and tell you a little bit of my own story. Why do I write? I believe that moments of pain can be redeemed, that in the right hands they...
  • Nancy Hinchliff posted a message for Nino Gugunishvili
    Hi Nino, Just wondered what you're working on right now and how it's going. I am working on a (second) memoir and it's taking forever. I attribute it to the length...

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  • Hi Randy, remember me? I emailed you about your agent? Congratulations on your book release, and I'm glad your launch went so well. It will be a night you'll remember...
  • My Sociology professor/author, she was a Medicine Woman of the Lakota Tribe known as White Buffalo Woman. She knew before I did that really I was a writer that wasn't following my passion. She helped get me into the private arts college where I soared in writing. I'm forever grateful for her.
  • I am in my early 20s and my first book'Finding Me' looks back on my relationships during my teen years. I vividly remember feeling like everything was going to last fo...