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  • Whoah. I pray that this woman will come upon a ray of hope and revise her story to include it, and what I mean by revise her story is revise her life. Bless her soul,...
  • The examples you've listed are some of my pet peeves too and I'm sure there are people who claim to be writers but don't know the difference between due and do. I hone...
  • I read books on an e-reader and in hard copy, and often find myself in the middle of reading an electronic book and a hard copy (or 2 or 3). What are the advantages of...
  • Interesting, I recently read Yasmina Khadra's book The African Equation which is about a German man who is kidnapped from a yacht off the Gulf of Aden and all that hap...
  • Hi Kirsten, Good luck with the book! You got the stages to a T. I was previously with S&S and all I gotta say is, I've now moved onto a smaller house and I gotta...
  • Yes, TOH Lee, it makes perfect sense. Honesty is extremely difficult, even as adults. I love and often quote Lorrie Moore who says to write as if your parents will nev...
  • Brooke,  Thank you for the post and your attention to detail. As an author who has used CreateSpace, I am extremely pleased with their service.  I admire what SheWrite...
  • Great post, Bella.  Writing my memoir has been extremely theraputic.  It wasn't easy reliving some of it, but I found it the most healing thing I've done for myself, i...
  • I commented on my endless workcrastination (including what i'm doing right now), but I have been successful at "resisting its siren song." But these moments are genera...
  • Hi Ellen, thanks for this valuable list of practical tips for memoir writers. Your surprise in what had to be left out (#6) resonated with me. There were so many thing...