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  • Elizabeth Yon commented on Jane Flowers's article Chapter 2
    Jane, I, too, am working on my first novel.  Up to now, I've written poetry and short stories (my first book is a collection of short stories), so I am in the same spa...
  • Thanks for this lovely post. I'm in much the same boat, writing about a woman about my age with a similar past to me, and similar problems at an age when I had those s...
  • I remember my grandmother's beautiful writing...and I love how individual writing is. I still have a visceral reaction to the handwriting on old love notes. It's so sad it's a lost art.
  • What a wonderful essay! Thank you very much Sarah. A poem that always catches my breath is Auden's Lullaby: Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm...
  • I am lucky in that I'm married to a cgi artist who created a custom cover for my YA action/adventure. He would be pleased to discuss ideas with anyone who wants something individual. Just give me a shout.
  • Charlene, thanks for asking :) The way I understand the quote (from Alfred Korzybski) is that a map can show you a route to get from one place to another, but the unde...
  • I've had a mixed response to this controversy. On the one hand, it seems clearly absurd to me that so few writers (even on the list of 100) were women, and that out of...
  • I so agree that " the little ways in which we contribute to the world can be the butterfly that causes a tsunami "!!!!  Isn't it neat when ideas are in the air and we'...
  • You've given me much to think about, all of you who stopped to read and write for just a minute - passing your individual wisdom, at least a tiny bit of it, with me -...
  • I think I'll have to read through my novel again with this in mind. It takes place in pre-Conquest England, so current slang won't help, but I am sure there are ways t...