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  • Julie, this is so wonderful and refreshing! I love the writing community and we need one another, but it is also easy to slip into the complaint mode with people who "get it". Thanks for this great reminder! Susie
  • Thanks for posting this Emily. My favorite moment is a breath after I push the "submit" button. As you said it's hope, it's possible, it's magical realism. Then the...
  • Debi: That's a great idea and no I haven't seen anything like it. i spent the first two years of my time on blogs sending out messages of under 150 words. Those messag...
  • Good advice, Brooke.   Last weekend I learned about an ugly "war" between an author and one of her critics, a blogger who reviews books. The author went so far as to w...
  • oh if only it were easy! your suggestion to pay attention while you read other authors' works is excellent advice: I often reread parts of Stegner's Angle of Repose to learn from a master.  
  • Nancy Chadwick commented on her article Why Mary Karr eluded me
    so sorry to have accidentally deleted a comment made after Sharon's. The "x" was too close to "add comment button."
  • Kamy, Thanks--I am aware of your keen interest in making sure everyone's included--from the beginning of SheWrites and during the PW push. It's not easy. But look what...
  • This isn't world shaking, but I'd love to see an easy way for authors on tour to notify interested SheWrites members from a specific area. Right now we can post events...
  • Great, great post. Helps me to keep the big picture in mind (which is so easy to lose sight of when I'm swamped with rewriting and revisions!).
  • What inspires me to change is the dadgum mirror. If it's weight or attitude or hair that has taken on a mind of its' own...there it is inplain site 1 foot above the ba...