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  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
  • Great read very informative and I had no idea all this lady did for us tod...here was a time we had to fight to get out of the mother homemaker mode and now there are some ladies that want that mode and are made to feel that the...
  • The weekly "Monday Markets/Jobs/Opportunities for Writers" post has some great info this week (if I do say so myself!), including a couple of new calls for essays. http://www.erikadreifus.com/2011/12/monday-marketsjobsopportunities-for-writers-3/
  • Interesting list of authors' "day jobs"!  What's the citation, Amy? Kelly Hayes-Raitt http://www.LivingLargeInLimbo.com Mosey on over to my web site and sign in for your free gift -- an mp3 of me reading my book's first chapter about a beggar in Iraq!
  • I think that this experience and this writing can save lives and careers of many people who have to write for their jobs. For example, there is a book about how the wr...
  • Those numbers are staggering-- 93% of all journalists murdered are local. I would not have thought that at all, and it really pulls into sharp focus the fact that thou...
  • Ha! This great.What's funny is when I hear someone ask, "is that all you do," meaning reading, writing, etc., I think about how those playing pro ball, the entertainer...
  • Wow, brava -- for getting Bird in Hand (which I'm eager to read) out there, and for posting this courageously candid and thoughtful account of your experience. Greatly...
  • I'm definitely a part-timer now, M, as I'm juggling 3 jobs during any given season. But several years ago, I was "able" to quit my day job and work full-time at my wri...
  • Congratulations - both for quitting your job and having a really cool mom! I was born to be thirty and have more than doubled it since. My average stay at jobs during...