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  • I have never been able to work with a daily word count over my head.  I usually write...ew pages to remember where I was before I start again.  I am stuck in re-write mode on my first book.  I don't kn...
  • Since the main character/narrator, Rosalind, in my book relies on stories from her pas...oed in my head as I wrote, its lovely Southern lilt lulling me into a creative mode just as surely as opera.  Bec...
  • I'd be willing to contibute.  I have a couple blogposts swirling in my head. One about house-hopping this summer and the definition of a home (my role as a mother to h...

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  • Aimee Liu posted a status
    “Fiction is the art form of human yearning.” – Robert Olen Butler “We are living...Chief?) – does little to quell its effect on my psyche. I’m in fight-or-flight mode all the time, feeling angry a...
  • Lucia Viti posted a status
    My name is Lucia Helen Viti. I am a local San Diego journalist and published author. I live, work and breathe to write. If I didn't write, my head would explode. My Co...
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    I was halfway through “Homegoing” before I began to connect with it. As Yaw, a histor...dependence. Gyasi was born in Ghana and raised in America. I suspect Yaw was modeled on her father, of whom she...

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  • Whew! Thanks, ladies! I knew I wasn't the only one struggling, but it's nice to get co...head and took me a weekend to write. Karen A. Wyle - It IS hard to shake edit mode, especially when you do it fo...
  • Excellent stuff. I'm so glad I joined SheWrites... Here I am, at 1.30 AM, feeling like a complete loser because the stupid novel isn't going the way I want it too, my...
  • Thanks so much for the comments! I will definitely rework the ending. Kathleen, I like the idea of using another small detail. I'll think back to the experience and se...