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  • Thank you for your insights and for this practical and detailed checklist, Kathleen. Such good ideas! I love how engaged you are (or have become) with every aspect of the promotional journey. Inspiring and provocative. Your stories look great too.
  • I can definitely relate to this feeling. After I have spent a length of time engaged in solitary activity, I encounter the feeling of somehow being out of step with neighbors who see...
  • I haven't been on SHEWRITES in a long time but today I ventured in and I'm delighted I did! After reading this, you give us all hope and inspiration as to why we're engaged in this crazy thing called THE WRITING LIFE! Wishing you the best, Kamy!
  • ...your criteria with one exception....I added a few folks to my mailing list who had visited my site many times, left comments and generally seemed engaged. I did NOT subscribe them to...
  • ...stment banker. To earn my living, I would not do anything that took up too much time or mental space to interfere with the only work which really engaged me. Creating stories. Art was...
  • Hi Suzi, when watching softball, which I'm only "into" because my sweet, athletic daughter plays, I have many rabbit trails of thoughts. This was one of them. Suddenly I was engaged with the game and listening to the coach thinking, "I can use that advice with my writing!"
  • ...r negative students even if most people in the class look positive and engaged is positively perverse.  Ther...apt faces in a lecture all and I would find my eyes wandering to one unengaged or worse heckler student in t...
  • ...here is science behind this phenomena.  But it doesn't make it easier, emotionally.  I crave constructive criticism that demonstrates someone has engaged my argument/text in a deep wa...
  • ...ve a lot of freedom with it.  I have set a goal of posting twice a week to keep myself practicing, to keep content coming, and to keep my readers engaged.  If I don't have anything to...
  • ...ws of other writers means I'm fairly consistent. I have to remind myself every week doesn't have to be brilliant. But in order to keep the reader engaged, it does have to be there.