Sounds excellent! I completely identify with believing only in myself. I often mistakenly refer to Jeannette Winterson as the author of The Glass Castle (another memoir I loved!) and am delighted to see that the name I invented is actually a real person and a writer, no less.
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...e external cultures' hatred that gets absorbed and projected on themselves-- you can't get there without racist language.
As an editor, can you identify what's necessary on the page...
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...escription that an author thinks is innocuous but that could actually feel alienating or downright discriminatory to certain readers. Learning to identify and flag that kind of text, a...
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..."yankee speech," but oh, boy, is there ever! I imagine you just ask a NYer and a person from Massachusetts what they drive and that will quickly identify them! I hope to read your boo...
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Hi Caryn,
Thanks for sharing. Among other things, I'm a writer working on a collection of short stories. I can identify with both the lurking on She Writes and the feeling of running...
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...n’t please everybody; if you do, you will die trying.” I don’t make references to my characters’ color or ethnicity, because I want my readers to identify with the characters. I write...
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However, there are some issues that people, particularly women, over sixty care about and identify with, and these are hard to find in this chick-lit era of publishing. Unfortunately,...
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...that with my writing I ought to try to help others.... a couple of years later, the first book was accepted for publication.
Isn't the point to identify the gift and to keep working...
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Kamy, what a great article, which I can identify with. I wrote my first book Making Dollar$ And Cent$ Out Of Online Dating at age 62. It is a personal journey into the trials and tribu...
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Thanks Toi for a great article! It's sometimes quite overwhelming with all opportunities to market ones book, but you identify lots of great strategies for successful PR!
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