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  • Cindy, I look back over 42 years of writing; acceptance; rejections; bad, good, unfair or even outrageously prejudiced reviews, people who loved my writing or hated it...
  • Mani, Bingo! Look at my earlier post on page 2 here about the very program you're talking about...a program Amazon announced with great fanfare last month saying it wo...
  • It is inhuman to write on and on without rest, stimulus or inspiration. As an intermittent social smoker (with the rare ability to pick it up after years without,) I h...
  • Thank you for this - it's really useful. I have just begun to submit personal essays to the USA from the UK and this is a real gift!
  • It would be interesting to read more books like this. Because my family is so interracial, I started writing this way from the start. I have books out where I've writt...
  • Hi Mardith. You make a good point, but the fact is that, until modern times, the idea of "correct" English just wasn't an issue. Th...iterate, it was because they were taught one-on-one by a tutor. Modern people have become so stuck...
  • Wow all of this is really true, I'm thinking about actually WRITING all the awesome ideas I have one day, so that maybe I can say some of these things for myself. Dido...
  • Diane, and Katherine, thank you. What a smart and thought-provoking exchange. And thank you, too, for your thou...the implication that women need a refuge because they can't compete in the "real" world? (A "real...
  • Kimeko, you are right to "just do you." And don't worry that you are not raw enough for black readers. Black folks read all kinds of stuff. In my experience with books...
  • "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself." -- Ethel Barrymore