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  • Nice summary. I like thinking in terms of respecting ourselves, our work, and our readers when explaining what a book is about. That's a much better starting point than "what can I say in 10 words."
  • Sorry for not explaining. I have a writing/inspirational type blog at http://thedesertrocks.blogspot.com Please read some of the things I have written in the last two years by clicking on the words at the top.
  • Dear Ripley - Thank you so much!! I currently have a kickstarter project going, too, and I have been explaining the concept of crowdfunding to friends and families and...
  • Thank you for explaining by using examples. A close friend who is a successful author of nine romance novels gave me this advice. She said that using adverbs would sto...
  • I bought a book at a writing conference a few weeks ago called Done & Done - The Power of Accountability Partnering for Reaching Your Goals by Annette Lyon & L...
  • This is an extremely useful article--thank you for it. I had an experience that aligns with your piece. In 1994, I had an agent who was working with a fine small press...
  • Kevin Camp commented on her article Dry Drunk, Part 2
    There are Canada/American South parallels for sure. Another way we are similar is in the inferiority complex. Southerners feel that we're treated as uneducated redneck...
  • Oh thank you! I agree with you completely that it's no use fighting with your characters. I get into trouble with family sometimes when a character says or does someth...
  • Interesting way to put it, Gerry. You are explaining why perhaps Stein had such a natural way of recognizing and embracing what the earliest Cubists were doing, because she was already doing something comparable! Everybody, me included, is usually thinking it was the other way around.
  • Thank you for this. How timely. I mentioned my son in my leadership blog today -- explaining why as the mother of a gay teen I was so touched by the story line in Glee...