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  • I do have a sense of humor, and a sense of irony. Today I happened to read "So You're Going to a Writers' Conference!", essentially a report of what the writer did on her summer vacation. It's a genre that sells! She was in my workshop at Bread Loaf last year. I'm the womn with the pins on her hat.
  • Fascinating question and love the comments too! I note most comments are from self-declared introverts (of which I'm one too!). Could it be that writing fiction is ess...
  • When I was a graduate student working on my first book, and at a moment when I'd just realized that what I'd done was all wrong, and I was essentially going to have to...
  • You have a lot of valid points. I agree with you that far too many wannabe writers seem to spend more time complaining about how hard it is rather than buckling down a...
  • It's one thing to have designated ad space in publications that traditionally have it, but to add products into a story to make extra money seems low. It drives me cra...
  • Half-way through, I am enjoying Go Set A Watchman, though it is clearly a first draft. I only wish I could literally get Harper Lee in a critique group or even just a...
  • Good promises! Completing what I begin has been the greatest challenge. I have bits and fragments from writing during my working years. As a retiree, I'm now trying to collect and polish. And finish. And submit. Two books out already, and another one essentially finished.
  • >>I don't know why "up" means "on" for a light switch<< Actually, there are good reasons for it. It's easier to notice that a switch is ON than OFF, and i...
  • Hmm. . . comments must be limited to a certain number of characters. Multiple paragraphs of my comment were cut. Essentially, I wrote that most men just simply don't f...
  • That's fun. I want to share a sort of quirky experience that I had that was hugely helpful. When I was 19, I developed neurological problems (no, I'm not going to sugg...