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  • Kimberly - too bad, but keep at it no matter the number - just use it as an exercise in discipline. To me, writing is like working out and running or anything that req...
  • Anna: Phew! Thanks for the clarification about checking online. Yes, 20 is unrealistic...at least for the sakes of quality publications and submissions. I was composin...
  • I am planning to attend the Writer's Digest in September, and if I'm plunking down the money to attend, I should have a workable product to work with right? That said,...
  • Titles are heavy things. For over twenty years I was a dancer and performance artist. I only began saying I was a "dancer" when I began to be paid for it. Indeed, my f...
  • Thanks Sara for your response. I agree with so much of what you have written here.With my current novel, I have been very "keep it to myself" until recently when I sha...
  • Hi Amy, Thanks for the reply. You provided much more information in this post, which...difficult when it's an adult working with children, for sure. That adult must model openness, listening, respect...
  • Oh, I agree -- I actually think it is a constant struggle, which is why it didn't even occur t...e right, it is really interesting what happens when you make that shift from "whim" to "dis...
  • Hi Heather!   I love this idea and the support! I'm a brand new blogger. I started it as a way to discipline myself to write something every day so that I didn't feel...
  • Just wanted to say: Am really enjoying this discussion you all are having. Very stimul...difficult when it's an adult working with children, for sure. That adult must model openness, listening, respect...
  • from The Poetry Foundation on Louise Gluck: According to Warren, Glück’s “power [is] to distance the lyric ‘I’ as subject and object of attention” and to “impose a dis...