I've read ina couple online newsletters taht November 15th is I Love To Write Day. I would like to make a suggestion for all the women writers in here. Why don't we take that day (or another one close to it) and spend it submitting our work. Either that or cranking out new articles to submit.

The only way to get acceptance letters is to submit, submit, submit!

What do you think?

count me in! Remember, for every person out there who tells you NO, there is a person who will tell you YES!

I think I can...I think I can...I know I can...I know....

Wow, you girls are inspiring! I write. I have always written. I used to submit articles years ago and got some pretty decent rejection letters but then got busy/discouraged/lost interest/went back to work.....and quit doing it. So... I'm kind of like starting from scratch....so I'd need to go get a Writer's Market and figure out my audience, right? Why does that make me cringe? It's just always soooo... *lay yourself out there* And I really could kick myself because I love to write and I think I'm fairly decent at it. It's that first step that's so hard for me.

DK, please check ou the LINKS on my site. There are many women who have started freelancing later in life and are very inspirational to others. IF you would like, I can email you newsletters and sites that are of interest to freelancing women. What do you say.

I think your style of "lay yourself out there" is what sells!

People are curious about other's lives and when they can read honesty on paper...it doesn't get any better thatn that.

I also have a couple great bookd to recommend if you have that kind of writing style:

bird by bird, by Anne LaMott
Writing To Save Your LIfe, by Michelle Weldon
Spiritual Writing, by Deborah Levine Herman with Cnthis Black

All three will make you want to write and never stop!

DK,
You are not starting over...you are re-inventing your life...I say go for it girl!

If you do what you always done, you'll be where you've always been....heh?

You two are just wonderful breaths of fresh air. The relationships between women never cease to amaze me. They are so rich, so gracious, so wide open. I find the same thing with my close friends here. Either I've managed to pick very well or we've all just been drawn together but I find it's probably one of the richest parts of my life and I include both of you, Dotsie and jawjaw, to be part of that. Thank you so much for the encouragement and inspiration. You are both wonderful.

DreamrK

well isn't that just dandy...good grief...now I have to add YET ANOTHER name to my Christmas list...does it ever end?????????

Let's not forget the 15th is coming up. Since I'm not really working as a freelancer I don't have lots to submit. I do have an article about adoption that I will submit to a few places that day...just for the fun of it.

oh pooh --

i went and wasted all my "submits" this past weekend instead of waiting until the 15th

oh well -- guess i'll just have to find more places to "submit"

DK -- i think people would love to hear your story/stories -- you shoot from the hip -- and that's refreshing -- people can relate to you and you have a way of making people like you immediately (except when you make me use big words that i have to look up how to spell )

so -- and i think i've heard this somewhere before -- go for it

That's another amen from me to LPaws to DK...do I hear another one sisters? DK has it going on and doesn't even know it. Those are the best writers if you ask me...like LP...same thing.