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OK---that explains it. Clever marketing.

Even better for you. Thinki how many cities see yor work. But I'll bet, knowing how cheap newspapers are with the pay schedule, they only pay for one location, right?

Great stuff...
 
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This is a great program. I am a true believer in just (pardon the image, but it is a writers saying) vomiting on the page.

Just get whatever it is you think you want to say out. It is the only way to actually start a project.

When I look at what I started with and the final product, you would not believe they are the same material.

My book went through at least twelved revisions before it made it to Palgrave. And even then I had to make more revisions---they removed 20,000 words and wanted me to add 40,000 words.

Basically take out most of the prison years experience and put in a whole lot more of the 60s and 70s.

I could not come up with 40,000 more words..just couldn't. Thought I was going to lose the contract. There just was not more to say regarding Sara Jane Moore and how the 60s and 70s related to her? I was not going to just through in wholesale material from others who were historians just to fill pages.

They still kept me. Thankfully.

Anyone live in Washington DC, Mc Lean Virginia, or Charleston, West Virginia?
 
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How are you feeling these days? Your work is truly beautiful. We could use more poetry that takes such a gentle touch.

I believe if more of the world would embrace the creatures around us we would reduce the violence we see and hear about so much. There is so much frustration with everything going on and people losing their jobs.

Not that hugging a chicken would cure world hunger, but the afection would be calming.

Your poetry should be required reading.
 
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Neat...I've love to hear what she thinks. The book is very 60s and 70s history focused, of course.

Current news and San Francisco based. It also deals a lot with the FBI and COINTELPRO (counter intelligence program). Nasty stuff.

I have a lot in there about the Patti Hearst Kidnappy and the Symbionese Liberation Army. That is good for a laugh.
 
After graduating high school I went to community college to study forestry. It was there that I had a writing instructor who was the
first to help me. He taught me nothing.

What he did do was express the same amazement that I felt deep down inside that I couldn't write. He acknowleged that I was truly trying, that I was not stupid and that it was surprising that someone who loved to READ so much would be completely incapable of stringing a few sentences together. God bless him where ever he is now.

Another great shift in conciousness for me occured as I was driving aimlessly in the beautiful mountains south of SanDiego at 2 AM in 1985. Yes 1985. I don't usually remember dates very well but I bought a new truck that year that I still drive... but I digress.

The shift. I was listening to my radio as I wound my way through the dark hills and I found some NPR broadcast of an interview with Annie Dillard. I couldn't believe it. Mentally , physically, I was in the middle of no where and here was an interview with someone whose writing I just adored.

You know what she said that caused my shift? Of course not. So I will tell you. The interviewer asked if her wonderful prose came out in just the form we read it in.

Well, Ms Dillard was agast - 'Good lord no!' (or some simular exclamation) She went on to describe her process as sitting down to write and making a HUGE mess until she knew she was done.

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It is a huge disservice when some people act as though writing is easy or tell a student they can't write!!!!

That teacher should have his pens removed!!!! There are ways for teachers to judge that don't say, "You can't write." That is not the way to do it.

Encouragement with instruction as opposed to "judging."

So what if your first efforts are not perfect? So what? No one is born a writer...and you may never be great. So what? Writing is it's own wonderful experience. To label you as a non-writer is crushing.

As you will see in another post here, my first efforts are total junk.

I've been writing professionally for 30 years. I have been a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. I've been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes and New York Times. Then I was a professional researcher, Research Director and technology analyst.

Now, I'm an author of my first book, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

I'm telling you this not to say how great I am, but that I have gotten beat to smitherens by editors from every publication mentioned here. I got beat up the most by Palgrave. You would think I am the worst writer in the world...

Yet, they bought my book.

Don't let anyone stop you from writing. Not that you don't need editing. We all do...but keep on. Learn, join writers clubs, writing groups, take classes, and write, write, write. Go to writers conferences. It's fun..

What you will find in the writing community is the same as you see here. Writers at all different stages with the same challenges. It's hard to write. Always and that never changes.

But isn't it fun to share? We have a lot to give to each other. We all have resources.
 
That teacher should have his pens removed!!!! There are ways for teachers to judge that don't say, "You can't write." That is not the way to do it.

That's so true. I had a university art teacher tell me in front of the whole class that I was the worst art student she'd ever had because I would not change one of my pieces per her (awful!) "suggestions".

I gave up doing art until a lovely art teacher in Portland convinced me to take her class. I found out that I am not too shabby an artist. She said I had a "very mature eye for composition, placement, color, and flow".

I'm sort of frustrated about my writing though... I have all these ideas for a novel, but sitting down and actually putting fingers to keyboard (pen to paper, let's say) is not as easy as all that.​
 
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I got a D in art because "everything you draw looks like a darn cartoon!"

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