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  • @Carleen Yeah, I'm a bit up and down with the optimism myself. There are days when I feel overwhelmed by the odds, and I think reading articles like this ... well, you...
  • Oh, yes, there are formulas for that stuff. The general assumption in online community...t like the adults who didn't grow up with television, still crippled by the outmoded belief we can see it all---m...
  • Denise Fisher commented on her article Time for change..
    I think it's the "trying to stand out" that so many kids are striving for that is causing so much pain in the lives of those who are doing nothing more than trying to...
  • @Suzanne, yes, this is a problem for sure. The shipping costs will continue to be high because all we can do is approve UK retail outlets to sell the American version...
  • Back in the day, I was a great letter writer. I wrote a letter almost every day. That was what some might consider journaling. I attended college back when a long dist...
  • What you cut and pasted here is pretty on par with what I think of as normal industry rates. SWP charges $60/hour for copyediting. Obviously this is a tricky space bec...
  • Emily, this is great! Also, just by coincidence I was Googling The Raleigh Review (this morning!), a literary mag where I serve as a volunteer fiction reader, and I st...
  • Stacey, you are so right about the clients who complain about the price. They don't understand "you get what you pay for." I know that newspaper syndicate authors who...
  • Of all professions, writing is the one in which older persons have the advantage of experience, wisdom accumulated over the years, perspective, and plenty of time, unh...
  • Wow, Shari! What an amazing response! I identify with how poetry can make it easier to deal with pain. I mean, when I'm able to write about a painful situation, the pa...