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  • ...tive. In my book on infant loss, grief and recovery, I used journal entries, followed by retrospective sections written five years after the loss occurred. When I'm writing something,...
  • ...material demand? Be true to that. Are we artists, or wimps? I'm writing about my growing up years in a particular town, where devastating events occurred. My memoir includes my sister...
  • ...I wrote if I used names that had meanings related to the theme (I was dealing with my own fear of the dark.) Meanings behind the names had never occurred to me! On my next payday, I b...
  • Last reply by Nora Gaskin Esthimer
    I wrote a non-fiction piece about a murder that occurred in Chapel Hill, NC in 1963, when I was 12 years old. I feel that the course of events was shaped by a number of social forces:...
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  • ...shell or that everything you write is in someway related to your being a mother. - Kelli I protest at "Mother" being a dirty word, but it hadn't occurred to me that a mother writer wo...
  • ...only within the last year finding the guts and gumption to jump wildly back into writing. I protest at "Mother" being a dirty word, but it hadn't occurred to me that a mother writer wo...
  • ...m Machir said:I have used my children's real names in my blog... and then read a friend's and she was using initials. Until that moment it hadn't occurred to me that I might be being c...
  • I have used my children's real names in my blog... and then read a friend's and she was using initials. Until that moment it hadn't occurred to me that I might be being careless about...
  • ...America to claim equality for women in the "public prints" (unlike Abigail Adams whose calls for the men in Philadelphia to "remember the ladies" occurred in private letters). You can...
  • ...Guatemala, Scandinavia and several countries in Europe, and have lived and worked in England, I've lived most of my life in Canada after all. It occurred to me at some point that perh...