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  • love your drawing...new here also. I have found that I learn by teaching. I started a group entitled Workshops and it is for studying writing books like, Elements of S...
  • It's true, Nancy. The writing life, if you're serious about it, turns out to mean. . .your whole life! It goes on decade after decade, through bouts of employment and...
  • The first thing I do is something you hinted you might not do in your post - I set a deadline. If I am writing for someone else I make sure the client sets a deadline...
  • Oh, the business side of this is so annoying! Sometimes I think about just hiring a marketing expert type person on commission and handing her a percentage of any work she gets for me. Good luck with that, but wish I could! That said, I am studying up on entrepreneurship too....
  • Kathryn, no, not working or ever worked for a publisher, and no, not published in books, though in periodicals.  In my mind, though I did not specify, I was thinking...
  • Hi Suzanne - Thanks for giving the L.A. perspective. I love hearing about talent agents - it's a totally different world in some ways. There are still some literary ag...
  • I come at this from a different angle as a ghostwriter -- collaboration is the name of my game! Except that the balance-of-power is a bit different. Ultimately the cli...
  • Lovely article, Elizabeth, especially what you said about your editor inspiring trust.  I think that is absolutely key to this kind of editorial process. As a manuscri...
  • That the emails above came from a man whose job title is Director of Communications is frankly hilarious. He obviously doesn't understand that for a communications pro...
  • I agree, social media is a marathon. I had just left a software career in 2008 when Twitter started to gain traction. To me, it was just another software app back then...