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  • Hi Ellen. Love this post and whole-heartedly support the contagion of empowering critiques! I recently completed an MFA and got to work with some brilliant and talente...
  • Hi, Liberty, I think you can relax about including historical figures in historical fiction. Plenty of life happened in the past without famous folk around.  For my p...
  • It's another day rising over the same old hills that never seem to move and the sun is blaring into her window, breaking through the stubborn strong shade. His body is...
  • Tayari, I have to agree with you. And say that NaNoWriMo is part of the reason that my novel is NOT yet finished. I had started my novel Willa in 2005... then after a...
  • The author of the Time Magazine article on the state of marriage in American quite readily admitted that researchers are stumped as to whether suffering economics and...
  • Thank you! Every brick that we can knock down on the wall of silence and shame that is invisibly attached to rape brings us one step closer to pulling the mask off of...
  • I find that the passages in my writing that I don't censor, the ones that come straight from my center, the ones that I could consider raw and emotional, are the very...
  • Awards MIGHT matter. I got 3rd place in the Writers' Digest contest out of 19,000 entries, a fact I bring up when I teach how to win writing contests. I've also won Be...
  • Elizabeth, I love your classy diversion method. I am an extrovert and never had an issue with public speaking....at least not with conducting safety training in front...
  • Um, Duh, Emily, how do I link something to your wall? God, I am such a Luddite. I'm not even sure what an html is?  This is what it said across the top of what I wrote...