Comments on: This Elusive Craft http://writeupouralley.com/writing/1772 Children's Book Authors and Illustrators Fri, 10 Sep 2010 23:03:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Leigh Ann http://writeupouralley.com/writing/1772/comment-page-1#comment-52 Leigh Ann Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:45:33 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1772#comment-52 We are writers when we use words to express life and love through story. Everyone is a writer. We are writers when we use words to express life and love through story. Everyone is a writer.

]]> By: kay http://writeupouralley.com/writing/1772/comment-page-1#comment-50 kay Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:33:15 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1772#comment-50 How amazing to know someone who has a "fascination with pattern, order, and number"! These areas do not draw me in at all, so seeing into your mind was a gift to me. I should be creating characters as different to the core as you and me. Thanks for sharing so enerously! I am fiercely, thoroughly a writer now, but it took years to feel that way. Having multiple titles helped. So did presentations as "the writer." Making many deadlines, (bleary-eyed and triumphant) handling final edits under copyeditors, writing bios and flap copies, and having real friendships with my editors finally overwhelmed my insecurity. You, Marianne, perfectly convey your passion and understanding through words. That is what most writers can only hope to do! Kay How amazing to know someone who has a “fascination with pattern, order, and number”! These areas do not draw me in at all, so seeing into your mind was a gift to me. I should be creating characters as different to the core as you and me. Thanks for sharing so enerously!

I am fiercely, thoroughly a writer now, but it took years to feel that way. Having multiple titles helped. So did presentations as “the writer.” Making many deadlines, (bleary-eyed and triumphant) handling final edits under copyeditors, writing bios and flap copies, and having real friendships with my editors finally overwhelmed my insecurity.

You, Marianne, perfectly convey your passion and understanding through words. That is what most writers can only hope to do!

Kay

]]> By: debbie http://writeupouralley.com/writing/1772/comment-page-1#comment-49 debbie Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:10:25 +0000 http://writeupouralley.com/?p=1772#comment-49 I would like to know the answer to your question too, Marianne! I keep hoping that some day I won't feel like an impostor anymore... Although, btw, none of us here have any doubts that YOU are a writer! I would like to know the answer to your question too, Marianne! I keep hoping that some day I won’t feel like an impostor anymore…

Although, btw, none of us here have any doubts that YOU are a writer!

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