Comments

  • 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...
  • I’ll weigh in as a poet…grateful, given the 3 kids, to have the time to write at all; when my youngest was still nursing, my blogging was a way to give myself a deadli...
  • I guess I'm in the recovering junkie category you experienced in your classes. The first night I went to a meeting of my writers group I later went home and googled ru...
  • Kamy, I'm sorry for your pain. But I disagree with the statement "Write what you know." One very good writer amended it into "Write what you feel." That one sits well...
  • Liz, thanks for the Gaughran link. It's scary, and sounds a lot like what I experienced with Abbott. I won't make the same mistake again. And fortunately, I did get a...
  • Well-written! When I was raped by an acquaintance in a major Canadian university in 1971, I arrived at the Emergency entrance of the local hospital soon afterward (due...
  • I have experienced sexism but more from people outside the writing industry. But I'm sure lots of women have experienced the blank look and slow-shuffle sideways escap...
  • Carol, that's a really interesting exercise. I'd be interested to go the opposite way -- from 2000 down to 1000. I find that essays can get better as they get shorter,...
  • For me, walking that line and keeping my balance is an instinct I've honed over a long time. It takes A LOT of practice. My advice...don't back off. If I were you, I w...
  • Elizabeth, thanks for your post on blurbs. I too, experienced the "terror of the ask." But...I did my best to send requests that were true to me and not too fawning (e...