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  • Thank you, HYBA. I love your comment. I love that you've made the decision to respond with the utmost kindness and sincerity. Imagine if everyone did that!
  • ...'re not getting anywhere with what they're doing. It's a difficult thing, because it comes from a place of struggle and insecurity. I've made the decision to respond with the utmost ki...
  • ...ted on the line "...when my lease was up, I would renew it. " For me that day was just a couple of months ago. The absolution and peace that that decision brought could not be better e...
  • ...a review, so I thought: if it didn't put me off in that situation, why would I, as a writer, presume it might put off a reader? So I made the decision to always ask.... directly an...
  • ...ting my memoir about domestic abuse as fiction, but then I realised that what I had done all throughout my marriage was deny and hide. I made the decision to do a memoir in order to "c...
  • Couldn't live without books, both reading them and writing about them, a conversation I now get to have about so much more of my reading since making a decision to use that exercise as part of my writing practise. 
  • Yay. Congratulations on making this decision, Bella, and welcome!
  • ...houghts and insights. All the names in the book have been changed (they always were) and I am going forward with a pen name. I struggled with the decision to use a pen name primarily b...
  • I do think you need to query quite extensively, Nan. It's a good strategy to go for at least 50 or more to get a sense of the overall agent responsiveness. As I said in my blog, when I evaluated my goals, it truly helped me make my decision to go with SWP. Good luck to you!
  • So hard to know what will pay off and what won't. I can certainly relate. Been there, done that - I know how easy it is to agonize over these decision. Wishing you the best, whatever you decide.