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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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    “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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    When your own words come back to haunt you...I sometimes tell my daughters. If you have a bad experience, write it down. It least its useful for something. Now, whenever, I say, "this is the worst day ever," they tell me, "remember you can always write about it."
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  • Deborah, I cried constantly from the first time I heard the news through Obama's speec...s. But when it's people I know personally and love deeply, I kick into 'brave' mode and remain solid as a rock, a...
  • 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...
  • 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.