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  • thank you for this debbie, it honestly brought a tear! any other only children out there? the mother/child relationship with only children is so fascinating, and, i've found, so diverse. can anyone speak to that, too?
  • Nancy, I know exactly how you feel. I'm in my 60's and have spent my life writing many books...in the old traditional; long before the Internet. Not that that way was...
  • Poor teaching of poetry to children may be one reason that you hear such comments. The thing is that many excellent children's book are poems (consider the rhymes), an...
  • Wow! Julie, your post is so interesting and so relevant to where I am right now. I am working on a new novel and also on a nonfiction book that I had sat aside and hav...
  • I'm a big fan of collaboration, and pleased that this article presents a variety of approaches. I agree that it's really important to talk about how the process will w...
  • When i was querying agents, I had the good fortune to find myself in the position of receiving more than one offer of representation. I did weigh a number of factors w...
  • Kimberly Wesley commented on her article He's white, but I'm not
    Well said Kierie! And you're right, opening to dialogue and discussing relationships in general helps us. Not only me in my personal life, but me as a writer and how i...
  • I'm going to plug my memoir, here, just to illustrate how vast the genre of memoir can be - as humans we have such a variety of experience that memoir topics can be as...
  • Thanks Deborah - finally got round to reading this and it was well worth it! In terms of through-lines, I like that you've brought this up because it's something I st...
  • @Emma, why would having pretty hair link to slave mentality? I'm natural, and I think that's beautiful. And, yes, I was specifying my genre as a whole, versus across t...