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  • I’ve just read all the comments here with my hands shaking and my stomach churning the...held about my mother and my own origins since childhood. Hmm, yup, whiny brat mode achieved… but seriously, I th...
  • HeIlo again, Grace. You do just that. Hi, Marcie. Nice to meet you. I love the admission of lurking. We are do it now, don't we? Looking in on a blog to see what light...
  • Congrats! I gave myself a little over a year of pitching to agents, only half of whom responded to me. Of those who did, most really liked the concept but admitted the...
  • While writing my historical novel, I found keeping track of online research to be difficult, even with Bookmarks, and then I found Write It Now.  I used it to keep tra...
  • I think it's fair to say that nobody is better or worse than any other person because of his profession. The most important thing in life is who we are, how we treat o...
  • Have you? I went through something similar a month or so ago. I had a writer friend look over the first 50 pages or so, and the feedback was good - I thought I'd dull...
  • I understand what you're saying, but I'm a terrible writer. I'm a great "typer." I once did a favor to a friend with whom I'd had a lengthy correspondence. She always...
  • Tweaking Twain is really very appropriate.  My daughter is in high school and studying the first American presidents.  In the section on Thomas Jefferson it mentions n...
  • Great post, Julie!  And congratulations on your decision to devote yourself to writing.   My writing path (briefly):  As a child, I wanted to write, and did.  Then my...
  • When we lived in Africa I joined an ex-pat women's book club that tended to read British novels, among them several by a British woman novelist named Anita Brookner.  ...