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  • First, how I chose these 3 blogs… I read through the blog titles on the She Writes list until one caught my eye. I picked out about a dozen blogs to browse, then settl...
  • This is a lovely exploration of your development as a reader and writer.  I added a comment at the bottom, so I won't repeat what I said other than to say that I too i...
  • This Spring my first novel, "The Season of Second Chances" was published. It is, nominally, about a teacher who moves from her emotionally disconnected, Columbia Unive...

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    In her Pioneer Girl, novelist Bich Minh Nguyen offers us Lee, a protagonist who is both a thief and a literary sleuth. The morally complex detectives of the best myste...
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  • Thanks so much for this post, Ellen.  I also move between activism and the more isolated, internal work of writing, sometimes finding them in conflict in my own life a...
  • Hi Jennifer, I recently installed Google Analytics. I find it's worth every minute I spend exploring. Your article encourages me to continue my exploration. Mickie Sherwood
  • Wonderful advice: "See the writing life as an exploration." I need to tell myself over and over to enjoy the writing journey and not to take it too seriously. I think your blog post is spot on.