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  • I had an experience about this not with an agent but directly with a publisher.  They wanted me to change the book so that it was no longer the memoir that I wrote but...
  • I love this idea of secrets about writing. My secret is that I, too, fall easily into self-doubt despite a publication history. A rejection still hurts, both my feelin...
  • Brooke I, too, learned that an outside happening or influence can stop a writer from writing cold in their tracks. (And, yes, as you the election drove me to first ela...
  • Sunny Frazier commented on her article DAVID VS GOLIATH
    Small towns don't so much hide secrets as absorb them. We know what we know, we openly talk about the players and who is connected to who. Fascinating web. If this guy...
  • You're welcome, Bieke. I love this phrase: "a novel that I simply must write." May the quiet come to you. All best--Mylène
  • Carole Maso. She is not afraid to break the rules of narrative, and she is the only writer I've read who authentically captures the specific details of loneliness and...
  • I'm always following social class in one way or another, and lately with promoting Cover Me: A Health Insurance Memoir I've been thinking about the many women who are...
  • Great Post Kamy. Like many my increased interest in writing came out of a need to express myself. Which is interesting because I come from a family where the freedom t...
  • Your post Mother, Stranger, struck such a chord with me. I was a writer from the age of eight when i won a PTA writing contest for a short story that was chosen to be...
  • Hi Rachel, I SO hear what you're saying. I had good jobs, like really good jobs: a TV reporter, press secretary, media relations and commercial video production. I was...