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  • Deborah, I cried constantly from the first time I heard the news through Obama's speec...s. But when it's people I know personally and love deeply, I kick into 'brave' mode and remain solid as a rock, a...
  • It's just another kind of challenge to me. But I do respond well to deadliines. I write for my job and have to face deadlines so it's natural to me. I'm enjoying it. For sure this novel draft will need work in Dec and subsequent months, but they all do. (and anyhow I like cabbage !!)
  • Hi Daphne-- I am SO much that way too. I can't have any music or noise and have to quiet my mind so I can dig. It's not easy for me though. Like I said int his piece, my natural tendency is to correct me and not just reveal me. 
  • I love all these tips. Ever since I discovered Text to Speech software, my editing has dramatically improved. Reading aloud was helpful, but if a computer can read it and have it sound natural, you've done something not only right, but very well.  Thanks so much for sharing this. 
  • And did we mention all the research necessary to write the next Lonesome Dove?? I just spent the entire day reading at the Library of Congress. Next stop: the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. I'm glad I live near Washington DC.
  • I'm curious about your term "ecobiography." All my memoir writing is grounded in experiences in the natural world. So I'm glad to see this new term of yours!
  • Hi Claire and Christine, Glad that this post is useful. There truly are many more options available to us writers, and yet, the challenge is to find the ones that work...
  • Men just don't experience the same kind of angst women do.  Women are natural "worriers" - we are socially conditioned to be caring, sensitive and nurturing and men ar...
  • Maria, Thank you for posting this. I am the author of 2 novels and am ready to drop my Twitter account since I don't use it much. Somehow Facebook feels more natural t...
  • I just sent a note of additional thanks, and apology, to someone who was gracious enough to plow through my War and Peace-length memoir and offer thoughtful and genero...