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  • Annette Drake commented on her article Time to Quit...Again
    Hi, Christine. I made the decision to move my website from wordpress.com to wordpress. org. It wouldn't seem like a big deal, but it IS. I still follow your blog and l...
  • Thanks for this, Maura. I work with so many memoirists who are embarrassed about their genre. But I've also seen so many writers get over it. It's almost like somethin...
  • Donna—yes, yes, yes. Annette—it's not about whether readers buy based on reviews. It's about the attention and legitimacy your book gets because of them. For instance...
  • Thank you so much, Brooke, for writing this. I really appreciate your openness, lack of defensiveness and willingness to try to find practical, concrete ways to move t...
  • Reading this exchange, I wonder if I made a mistake by throwing these topics out there for discussion, in thumbnail sketches, rather than treating each of them fully a...
  • I went back and read the letter. It was painful and embarrassing, and reading the letter made me embarrassed for the author! I have to say the best line was the threat of regret and the presumption of a movie deal!
  • Day 1 NanoWrimo 11:35 a.m. Okay Nano started at 12:01 am and here it is almost 12 hours later and I haven’t written anything except emails and facebook messages. What...
  • Interesting piece -- I spend MUCH too much time on e mail, maybe I'll try that 7-day cleanse.  But you know, male writers don't write these articles about how busy they are. They don't feel guilty if they do their work.   They simply claim the time and  the family has to deal with it.
  • I thoroughly recommend CreateSpace. The quality and customer service is excellent and the prices are very reasonable. They deal with all the orders from amazon.com and...
  • Truth. There is so little truth in normal conversation. People either want to be sure they don't hurt anyone's feelings, or they want to be cute instead of insightful....