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    A significant step in defining women's roles in confl...e and security-related decision-making is one of the main tenets of the Women, Peace, a...signed a significant peace agreement in the role of main negotiator. She says cynic...
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  • Started by Jenny Steffan
    A significant step in defining women's roles in confl...e and security-related decision-making is one of the main tenets of the Women, Peace, a...signed a significant peace agreement in the role of main negotiator. She says cynic...
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  • Started by Jenny Steffan
    A significant step in defining women's roles in confl...e and security-related decision-making is one of the main tenets of the Women, Peace, a...signed a significant peace agreement in the role of main negotiator. She says cynic...
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    My mother and her service as a Red Cross "donut girl" in the European Theater in WWII is the main focus of my writing lately. A SheWrites blog could be the perfect place to tell her story.

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  • Regarding always having the first sentence of a essay first, my journalism teacher always said that main idea expressed in your first line was like a clothesline. And every subsequent paragraph and sentence should hang (relate) on it. This idea has served me well for 50 years.
  • Thank you for this post, Diana. I'm writing something now which is based on real people and events. I never considered it memoir. But the main character is loosely based on...
  • I definitely do try to make my main characters are multi-dimensional as possible! Strengths, weaknesses, fears - when writing in fantasy especially, I try to stay away from common cl...