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  • Kathleen, I made the same choice to pursue a social change career rather than a writing career -- yet the two kept coming together in surprising ways.  As a founder/lea...
  • ...s I've worked with over the years, however, who have continued to stay engaged with their publishers and who...f-fulfilling prophecy for sure). But part of this has to do with being engaged and learning about what's hap...
  • ...sonal details we can bear! I don't read some books because they are over the top emotionally--whether memoir or fiction. I like a narrator who is engaged, yet offers enough distance t...
  • ...gents have asked for, but kids/work keep always just out of reach of fully revised to the point I almost lost interest. Instead, I've been deeply engaged in finishing a much newer dra...
  • Kate, congrats on publishing the book!  I've started to read it--great opening! Am engaged in a similar project, though this is a cozy called OINK! involving a feminist network, poiso...
  • I engaged in intermission conversation in the restroom at a local theater with a stranger, waiting for an empty stall.  .  Next thing I know I am sitting in the stall an...
  • ...essed-down by their marketing department. Well, I finally self-published it last year. I'm satisfied that it's a good novel, one that is socially engaged yet by no means some kind of...
  • ...et up a private blog where we could post what we called "anything-a-day" since we are a mix of prose and poetry writers. It kept us motivated and engaged. We're keeping the blog up al...
  • ...electrifying and even if the audience don't really know what happened , they feel it. There are also lovely zen moments where you are completely engaged on stage speaking the lines,...
  • I attended a workshop with Natalie Goldberg last year in November and it was very impression and moving. I really enjoyed being engaged with writing practice and sitting in a room fil...