Pride and envy seem to be two sides of the same coin.
Pride is actually weakness covered by a thin, coppery patina of acceptability. As is envy.
The two manifest typ...
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I think I've become comfortable talking about my work because I meet with bookclubs and they not only ask me questions that make me think about my own work but someti...
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I hope I'm not hijacking Nancy's nice post here by responding to Janet. Ah, someone should write a book about social networking etiquette. I saw in your profile inform...
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Hi, Dear Elisabeth, thanks for your nice note and support. And question! I'm about half way into the first draft of a novel based on a 1947 lynching in my home town...
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You nailed it when you said, "And the fact is that none of us will never get to where we need to go as writers if we do not learn to manage our visceral response to cr...
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As a Jungian psychoanalyst I find dreams to be a wonderful medium for deepening a story. As an author, in my recently published book, In the Tracks of the Unseen; Memo...
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Hello Melanie. it must be difficult to leave bits of you out of the book you are writing. I think a lot of people can be torn between maintaining authenticity and abso...
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It's unfortunate you've had such a negative experience from other Black writers. I can only say that my experience of other Black writers has been supportive, rather...
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The term ‘brainwashed’ shouldn’t be taken as an insult and assumed to be rude. It is a psychological phenomenon. It can take place in many ways, some is specific to cu...
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Dear Eunice,
Thanks for doing this! Irv and I are in moscow speaking to the psychological and psychiatric community. here, too, women are underrepresented in so many...
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