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  • What a wonderful, inspiring essay, Bella!  Fran and I must be on the same wavelength... so much here resonates with me as well.  As a fledgling writer - my Amazon auth...
  • My MFA is from Whidbey Island Writers. (NILA)  My teachers were writers and awakened epiphanies about my strengths and weaknesses, about the realities of writing as a...
  • Thanks, Tracy!  I think this will help me revise a proposal for a nonfiction book that's currently in its third draft. I do get hung up on the platform issue. I've joi...
  • Carol, online resources can be used for good and for evil. (I'm being silly) But, yes! I get sucked into the online vortex too easily. Just when I think "I'll do a lit...
  • Congratulations on the new book!! I also know what a great feeling it is to receive a copy of a new book's cover!! You are at once excited and thrilled and at the same...
  • I know, what a book! He has a new thing called Mosaic to help people assess, online and anonymously, if a relationship is dangerous - workplace or personal. I don't kn...
  • "Twitter Tweet Salon" or "Twitter & Tweet Salon" This reminds me of several online "writers' salons" I've attended. They're a lot of fun. I'm a member of TweetSpe...
  • I've been doing a version of the media cleanse since the new year. I only allow myself to go on Facebook on Fridays. It's definitely good for my writing, but I've real...
  • Marisel, I am an author, also  born & raised in Humboldt Park. Your post reminded me of a piece I wrote about what my father taught me (indirectly through his deat...
  • Janis, getting into conversations can be slow going but you don't need full conversations. All you need is interactions. You get to know users by their tweets, and the...