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  • Teachers and students strongly encouraged me to write a book based on my presentations.  I resigned at the end of the 2002 school year. And began writing.       “Never...
  • Brooke Warner, what a great article. I have been in business for over thirty years, which included writing articles, running an introduction service for singles, an on...
  • I appreciate your candor as a result of your experiences with writer groups. I found your statements - that you can't write what you haven't mastered and you certainly...
  • Interesting coincidence, I just put up a little hymn of praise to my critique group of the past twenty years on my author facebook site!  The core of this group as bee...
  • Beginning writers need nice words, encouragement and discussions about inner critics. My technique is to share connections, images generated from the writing. Some peo...
  • Agreed. Writers, or rather the best writers are avid readers on GP (general principle). Your post struck a chord, however. Although I didn't realize this was happening...
  • This post explores such complicated ideas and brings up such complicated emotions. Yes, there is the notion that you were more involved in concepts of race relations t...
  • Illustration (via drawing, painting, and later, photography) have a long association with the sciences, particularly biology. I recently edited a Smithsonian publicati...
  • Hi Nancy: What a well-informed post, Nancy. In general, I couldn't agree with you more. (And the Magic of Memoir anthology certainly knows what a memoir is!) I'm looki...
  • I definitely agree with Amy's advice. I tend to do my development writing in a journal, as I always have it with me (except when I run, when I have a folded paper and...