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  • Great post, Tayari! Your question, "But have you been properly nourished?", seems most essential to me. I imagine for some on the NanoWriMo path, the answer is "yes" &...
  • Thank you Emily for the great advice on self-publishing.  I'm still figuring out how to use social media to the best of my advantage, but what I have learned is that i...
  • Kati, this is a terrific reminder, not only before you send, but while you are writing.  I would add to this list quotes around words that seem to mean something to th...
  • To me it's political correctness gone crazy.  The weird wish to sanitise that which is not 'squeaky clean' so as not to offend imaginary hordes of people, when I suspe...
  • I agree, Julie, a place of our own, even if just a desk, is essential. That said, I'm a dining room table writer (even though I have my own office!). And now that I've...
  • Anne, I have read this before, but what strikes me today is your emphasis on courage. That is a virtue/attitude/gift which is essential. Yet the everyday challenges ca...
  • It's so amazing for me to come across such a wonderful post today, as I just finished with an interview on blog talk radio this afternoon.  And there it was, very firs...
  • Alissa, I guess that's exactly it. Hope and faith (as you mentioned on your great blog) are essential to writing, I think.
  • Bella, this is a really useful and lovely post, a great reminder of the importance of the "bigger picture". Thank you! My own last year (and the start of this) has bee...
  • Have to speak up again as I'm raising 3 sons. I just wrote an article that will be in the next issue of Hip Mama called "If We Want Men Who Rock Our World We Need to S...