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  • Good post...enjoyed it. I happen to be a gusher too. And, as you intimated, I am also very comfortable with it. It does produce  some crap, but I love to rewrite...tha...
  • Hi Julie! Great post and I LOVE your lemony yellow walls. And gosh....mountains right outside your window?! I HAD my own room, in a spare bedroom of our house. I'd bou...
  • What a great post. Some of these hit home with me. I have not yet published a book, but I'd like to someday! I am generally a very disciplined and organized person --...
  • Motherhood changed my perspective on life in so many ways. I started growing up in as my children grew up and that journey is no less epic than the Odyssey. I love re...
  • I love that we are all connecting with each other here. List below (Social media addict? Me?)   My "regular page" (say that you're a shewrites member when you send "fr...
  • Thanks for the reminder about "sharing" one's work.  But for those of us who write really sloppy drafts (I'm talking minestrone on the floor sloppy) the first step is...
  • I agree, Maria. I am 18 months into my book with four long research trips to Piemonte under my belt (in addition to 21 previous trips). I finally decided, "Enough alre...
  • Jessica, I love the phrase "cavern of faces". I enjoyed how you start us off inside your experience, from the floor looking out. I wouldn't mind being there with you...
  • Okay...the 2 hour thing didn't work so great today - I ended up lying on my heated floor with the sun beaming down on me, contemplating life...business ownership...wri...
  • Congratulations on the super positive response, especially from your agent. Your joyful excitement oozes through every word, infecting us all right along with you. Now...