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Dear Writing Mama's, Over the weekend, I read Natalie Goldberg's new book, The Great Failure. On page 129, she writes "No good or bad. No criticism,blame-also no praise. That is how we were trained by Roshi. In a world of bonuses,competition,fear of failure, yearning for applause,rec...
Welcome. This is the place to give and recieve feedback from each other on your weekly postings. Please be respectful and please keep the topics focused on the writing. Please only give fedback that to people who have requested it. Thank you, Tanya...
Dear Writing Mama's, I am sorry that we missed a week. The board was still down on the day I left for Thanksgiving vacation and I can only start new threads from my home computer. So, here we are again! The most important thing that I need to express is that the feedback on each other...
Compulsion/ Panic drives my compulsion. Panic. Where does this anxiety come from? Why is it here? Is compulsion really just another name for "American"? Compulsion to eat, to distract, to fill this body with poisens. To escape. To escape this world. Last year was the first year that I thought th...
Hello Friends, Thank you all for posting your writing goals. I wanted to see them, and more importantly, wanted you to see them. Please begin to use this forum to post other projects as well as your assignments and ask for feedback when desired. Please read the post on safe feedback. For people...
Dear Friends, Thank you all for your warm wishes to me and to each other as we continue on this journey together. Next week, we are going to begin working with the idea of re-occuring themes in your work. I would like to ask you all to post some of your writing goals. For example, you may want...
Welcome Writers, Thank you for your rich, soulful posts. I appreciate the honesty and intention which you are bringing to this process.Also, I deeply appreciate your willingness to take the time to write in the midst of your busy mothering lives. I have found that when I give myself the gift o...
Authenticity and Surprises Dear Writing Mama's, Thank you again for another week of discovery. I appreciate the efforts you all have made to be with your own selves and not to comment on each other's work. I ask you to continue this practice and allow yourselves to deepen in this e...
Dear Writing Moms, Thank you all so much for your first contributions. I just sat down and read all five pages of posts and was thrilled and excited by your courage, willingness and vulnerability. This is the first time that I have ever moderated anything on the web and I appreciate all the pe...
Hello Everybody, I am going to share a few words about piecing a story or monologue together. Every writer has to develop her own style with this. I can only share my own experience. Often, I will print out freewrites that I have done (or tear them out of notebooks) over a three-six month p...
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Welcome Writing Mothers! The first six weeks of our group will be entitled Writing Into Motherhood. This will be an overview but we will focus on six sub-topics each week. I will give you six timed writings at the beginning of each week and then I ask you to post at least one of them by the end...
Hello everyone, I am hoping to find people who would be interested in starting a writer's group with me in the poconos. I want it to be a place where we can share our writings, get critizisms, learn and grow together, and find inspiration. I would like to meet once a month, and take it fro...
Why is there no new threads in this forum over the last 365 days? Doesn't anyone on this site write?!!!! Seeing there's no threads her to check out, can someone please tell me what sort of writings should go in here - poems. short stories, excerpts, book reviews??? Thanks, Jen...