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  • Deborah – Thank you so much for asking. My summer has been one long reallocation of my mental and physical energies. While I may exit the office, stray into places in...
  • I totally understand your frustration with social media. I just braved the social...rin advised me, you have to shift hats as a writer, shifting from creative mode to business mode. My main apprehension is maki...
  • I usually find pockets in my day or week to work on content. Sometimes a slow internet connection can be frustrating, but if I have at least 30 minutes to work on 1 th...
  • What a great post, Dani. I appreciate your perspective—always—on social media and onli...on NPR last night about boredom, and how it brings the brain back to "default mode," a critical state of mind fo...
  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I...d writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" f...s also feel the crisis acutely. I guess most of those "internet"-writers who never had t...
  • Most of my writing has been collaborative in some fashion or another, but it wasn't until recently that my friend, the immensely talented Simone Cooper, and I decided...
  • Very excited for this! Feeling less alone on this crazy island of draft-writing will be a relief. I've found a broken internet connection is immensely helpful, so I do...
  • The name that I use on here and around the Internet (at least with writing related stu...blog or on my writing, it's like an alter ego of sorts and I shift into writer mode.
  • Great post. Didn't Abraham Lincoln teach himself? And he didn't have the Internet. I think in this day and age, anything is possible with determination. There is no shame in being self-taught.  
  • Generally speaking, I feel the same as you do and like to build my vision of the character, but I also think references to certain key physical characteristics are ver...