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  • I think what is also quite clear is that women who succeed professionally--especially.... "let herself go") and had no-nonsense hair.  Now that she is in pre-campaign mode, her hair is always perfectly...
  • My character, Carolyn, is not quite a woman, but she is invisible in her school. She yearns to be a cheerleader, but she thinks that her body is "too large for fash...
  • The term ‘brainwashed’ shouldn’t be taken as an insult and assumed to be rude. It is a psychological phenomenon. It can take place in many ways, some is specific to cu...
  • Dear Tina, I recently read an interview with Lan Samantha Chang, the new head of the Iowa Writers' Workshop (and the first woman to be in that position.) She said that...
  • Talk about rewrite. Ellen, I have been working on my grandmother's story for a decade. Slowly, I'm getting it right, I'm excavating it in the fashion Stephen King talk...
  • I would rather  talk about some beautiful specific essays my students have published...2012/01/13/defriending-my-rapist/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/fashion/19MODERN.html?pagewanted=all...
  • Hi Sue, Dierdre, I'm up at the VT Studio Center writing memoir and thinking about the very lukewarm bathwater my baby will eventually be born into. I deliberately cho...
  • I was writing my Master's thesis on grief when I called on Dr. Therese Rando, a leading writer (esp in academia) in grief recovery.  In those days I wrote via US post...
  • I hope it's OK to add to this discussion: hostile comments when the book is still in progress can also be very upsetting. I have had several experiences in my writer's...
  • i like the girl that you are. i'm all of the above minus the makeup cos i hate the feel of stuff on my face. moisturisers are ok if they're not oily. i successfully wo...