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  • I am probably most afraid that what I write will be dumb...I am far away from writing...now I am finding it hard to create the space for myself to get into my writing mode which is a special place--I a...
  • The second blog post I choose to review is written by: Erika Klein and titled: 'Too Li...'d barely started. Of course I (being a writer) was immediately in postulation mode. "I wonder what letter one wo...
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    Must everything we, as authors and writers of the African Diaspora craft address race? I think not. And yet the very act of facing oppression, much of it due to the c...
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    Thank you for allowing me to be part of this wonderful group. I've just started writing in the last couple of years and have intensified this year. I have mostly focused on my blog but now I'd like to spread my wings and explore fiction. I have a dream to eventually write a book.
  • Melissa: You left a wonderful comment on an article of mine about mixing politics with...efs from our writing. It's not a new phenomenon. I recall Johnathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' and Dante's Infer...
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  • Wonderful essay!  I don't mind those 'on-the-spot' conversations.  Mama raised me to b...ay be completely different once I actually sell a book.  I could go into panic mode. But then... that's what the...
  • Julie, this is so wonderful and refreshing! I love the writing community and we need one another, but it is also easy to slip into the complaint mode with people who "get it". Thanks for this great reminder! Susie
  • Ah, the intorverted writer finds herslef in a crowd, I know the scenario well.  The ve...ple I don't know I still have the tendency to be a wallflower. I'm in observer mode afterall. But, I now teach wr...