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  • Just found a book I love about creative blocks and other sorts of resistance.  The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.  It is a short book, but very enlightening and inspiring. 
  • It's a platitude, but I think it's true to a large extent: If you're writing something that sings to you, it's always a success. Easy for me to say -- let's see how I...
  • This is the sentence I chose to value: "The writing and publishing worlds are unpredictable." Thank you, Jill! When I read this, something snapped in my mind. In a goo...
  • Cate and Erin, Thanks for this--aspects of it eerily echo my experience too, although in addition to the prevalence of male mentorships I had growing up, I want to gi...
  • this is a very helpful thread of comments. I face the same difficulty but with going back and editing what was written over ten years ago and still slumbers on my lapt...
  • Poignant moment, poignant description of a photograph. I see it all and still wish I could see the photograph. I wonder, Tinamarie, if by chance you've seen my comment...
  • For stories about girls learning how to use their power, see "Girls Wear Pants" at pearlmoonplenty.wordpress.com/2010/10/07/girls-wear-pants/ and add your own story of youthful resistance!
  • Dear Renate, I enjoyed the thoroughness of this thoughtful essay on defending Gertrude...l, who  brought us a better understanding of Stein in her book Gertrude Stein, Modernism, and the Problem of 'Gen...
  • Awesome post. Summer time is the hardest time for me to write. There is usually so much going on and everyone wants to be outside the house. Reading your post helped me imagine different ways of utilizing that time outside.. Bringing notebook paper and pen rather then my laptop helped! thanks
  • Ann
    I have run into this as well lately. Negative Nelly's scaring the bejeezus out of me. I see authors promoting their work in good ways and bad ways but what scares me a...