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  • I have mixed feelings too... some of the poetry mags i submit to refuse to accept work that has been published, even if it is on a personal blog. Others don't care. I...
  • I consider a writing group and beta readers to be the same thing, though I suppose there is a difference. That subject might be worth its own thread.   Regardless, Jen...
  • Started by Kelly Hand
    Last reply by Wendi Nitschmann
    I'm new to She Writes. Thanks to Meg for being a great moderator. I enjoyed reading your inauguration piece in my former hometown newspaper.  My new hometown is DC and I was on the National Mall...
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  • *mwah* Thanks so much for this Susan. I started plotting my latest WIP a few days ago and am treading very carefully. It's so foreign to me because I'm so used to pan...
  • Started by Sassafras Lowrey
    Write Start is a bi-monthly writing group for LGBTQ writers of all levels in the NYC area to come together with the fundamental belief that writing and telling our sto...
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  • I am a neurosurgeon by training and work experience.  I never thought that I was interested in creative writing until my mid-fifties.  I had been in predominantly male...
  • Started by Lynelle Clark
    Author Ruth Ann Nordin I met Ruth Ann Nordin through her books, I have read so many not once but two times.  The characters believable, the plot and story lines in...
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  • It's funny how we've segregated these two discussions! I did leave a lot of the detai...difficult when it's an adult working with children, for sure. That adult must model openness, listening, respect...
  • Hi Marie, This is very, very sad. I feel so bad for you. I think it's awful when families are torn apart like this. We only have one life on this earth and we need to...
  • Started by Carolyn Haley
    Last reply by Carolyn Haley
    Hi--   Here's my first crack at a query for a just-completed draft. I haven't decided yet what genre it is, or whether to pursue agent or editor first contact, or whet...
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