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  • Since the main character/narrator, Rosalind, in my book relies on stories from her pas...oed in my head as I wrote, its lovely Southern lilt lulling me into a creative mode just as surely as opera.  Bec...
  • Well, I love Scrivener--I've been using it for not quite a month. Still in the very e...ns (in my case, often very long interruptions). I also really like the typing mode where you just keep going, no...
  • Started by Sarena Straus
    Last reply by Melanie Conklin
    Hello All: I'm the published author of a true crime memoire called Bronx D.A., and my first YA novel, Assimilation, is now with my agent and being shopped (eek!).  Wou...
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  • Started by Brooke Warner
    Last reply by Karyne Corum
    Rebecca Lev, a Chicago psychotherapist, is balancing a heavy work load, two demanding kids, and an unhappy second marriage. When she learns that her father, Charlie, i...
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  • Throughout most of history, women have been told, in both open and unspoken ways, that they were important primarily for performing the roles defined for them by males...
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  • I do my Silly Sunday Sweepstakes every week. It's basically a caption contest, and a way to share in a light-hearted way. I've also done Wordless Wednesday, Writer's W...
  • Hey folks! New to SW and really excited to have stumbled on this community. I'm a NYC based actor and avid reader. Confession: despite working on many new plays and pr...
  • I follow several book bloggers and thus far I've been interviewed by two them, and a few more interviews are scheduled before my novel is released in January. There a...
  • Oh, my gosh, that does sound like a lot of traveling. My folks are in Florida now, too, but at least they still have each other. My mother-in-law is local and there ar...
  • Hi Kelley, I'm a published author as well and though I am appreciative of that fact, I understand your frustrations with how things are going. Maybe my situation woul...