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  • Beautiful! So beautifully said! Thank you. As a journaling teacher for over three deca...hear our voices and words, drops us into a listening, reflective-contemplative mode wherein we are received. Rece...
  • Very Good Fiona. I'm printing, and as well saving all articles that support this vision about literature. Not to discard those who tippy-toe around what they mean,...
  • Helping people in great need electrifies me, that surge where you are not even trying and everything is flowing like a perfect stream. All parts are coming together na...
  • It's an interesting question and one that will never be fully resolved, of course.  I think that memoir inhabits the border between nonfiction and fiction and that all...
  • Julie, I, too, stepped off into the abyss...13 years ago now. I quit my job at a newspaper (I was an ad artist). But at that time I'd already been working 23 years in...
  • Rewriting is certainly when I discover what it is I'm truly trying to say . . . .  Such a painfully sloppy process.  If only my brain would deliver the truth of the na...
  • Thanks for the post. A few years ago when all my 18 books were being rereleased (and all in ebooks as well for the first time) I took the time to make five simple book...
  • I think it is helpful to have both fresh readers and second-round readers go over the subsequent draft. My most helpful criticism came from someone I had hesitated to...
  • Beatriz—first of all, my condolences on the passing of your mother. It's a void that will never be filled. I know that doesn't sound promising or encouraging, but it's...
  • Debi: That's a great idea and no I haven't seen anything like it. i spent the first two years of my time on blogs sending out messages of under 150 words. Those messag...