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  • Whew! Thanks, ladies! I knew I wasn't the only one struggling, but it's nice to get co...head and took me a weekend to write. Karen A. Wyle - It IS hard to shake edit mode, especially when you do it fo...
  • You are definitely not "fat" in that picture. But I know where you're coming from. I've always had a problem with my weight. I'm short--which doesn't help matters eith...
  • Bravo! I think it's time for women to speak out on all levels of discrimination. We've been silent too long and young women don't realize the rights that are sliding a...
  • Julie, sometimes, when you don't want to continue with some piece of your writing, it's your subconscious talking. It tells you something is seriously wrong with the p...
  • Love this post, Julie, thank you. I am a grateful writer because writing connects me to my truest self. Writing gives me the opportunity again and again to exercise my voice and to discover who I am and to show up in the world as my authentic self.
  • S. Ramos, I wouldn't take legal action here even if there were grounds for it, but to your second question: If an author has self-published one book, is she wasting he...
  • i like the points you make on taking someone from your real life and write about them and see what it is like being them..i think in most cases i have done that...peop...
  • Sarah, thank you for this important piece of writing. I, too, went to the University of Chicago and understand the environment and issues of identity. My upbringing wa...
  • What a coincidence - I get on the elliptical machine to work off writer's block too! Before we gave up cable I used to exercise while watching the cooking channel - co...
  • I like the concept of 'free-writing'... as Marilyn says, it is great exercise for our writing muscles. I do Morning pages... long hand, stream of consciousness writin...