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  • Hi everyone.  I'm new here, but Sara and I have been internet writing pals for several...the early phases of a new chapter of my life, and so am not in heavy literary mode these days, but I look forwar...
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  • I have the same trouble, but I'm still in academia. I guess if you count grad school,...summer when things slow down, I cannot get into the feeling/absorbing/noticing mode I used to.  When I do try, I...

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    “Fiction is the art form of human yearning.” – Robert Olen Butler “We are living...Chief?) – does little to quell its effect on my psyche. I’m in fight-or-flight mode all the time, feeling angry a...
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    I recently attended three days of the James River Writers Conference in Richmond, VA. The experience gave me a whole new perspective on my memoir. After having three l...

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  • Great advice, Elisabeth! Text sounds different on your ear than it does as you read si...uld read her work out loud at some point, and certainly while in late revision mode.
  • 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...
  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...