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  • I have the same trouble, but I'm still in academia. I guess if you count grad school,...summer when things slow down, I cannot get into the feeling/absorbing/noticing mode I used to.  When I do try, I...
  • It's really hard to be in waiting mode and I sympathize. It's something with which you really have no control and that kind of thing drives me crazy! :-) I'm waiting on my agent's rea...
  • I don't have an MFA. My bachelor's degree is in journalism and my master's degree is i...it comes to fiction writing, I think the school of life is as important as any mode of formal education. That sai...
  • Housework is first to go, quickly followed by watching over the dinner (writing mode equals burnt dinners in my house), with Very Bad Parenting running close behind. Oh life is so much easier when I'm writing! Nothing really matters then except the next word falling on the page!
  • I just finished line edits, so I am in editing mode.  I spruced it up a bit (I think).  But, since you know the whole story, you will know if a word is not quite right....  Anyway, hope it h...
  • Posting this for Cece so it's in introductions:  Hi everyone.  I'm new here, but Sar...the early phases of a new chapter of my life, and so am not in heavy literary mode these days, but I look forwar...
  • I understand Carrie. I hate being interrupted by life. But that's the way it is, so I...y sets in, and I have to deal with that. It is hard to get back in the writing mode. By the time you do, then her...
  • ” I loved the book, mostly because it is filled with writing exercises inspired by sp...remember
 them. Expressing and listening to one’s own life story is an ancient mode of healing. How do we learn t...
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  • Hi everyone.  I'm new here, but Sara and I have been internet writing pals for several...the early phases of a new chapter of my life, and so am not in heavy literary mode these days, but I look forwar...
  • Thank you both, for the initial discussion post and the first reply. I'm amazed that I...because one of us is working on one. The epistle--the letter--is a historical mode now, isn't it? I recommend A...