tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584986441435970939.post2683852335423901797..comments2023-10-15T06:31:49.268-07:00Comments on JUST THE WRITE CHARISMA: Still Enough to ListenAndreahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17064541432630743730noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584986441435970939.post-85811243752695597552012-02-07T12:23:43.100-08:002012-02-07T12:23:43.100-08:00Jill, I appreciate your struggles. My mother deals...Jill, I appreciate your struggles. My mother deals with mental health issues, so I understand what you're going through. Sometimes it helps to write it out and other times it's a private thing. We have a common bond in the fact that our writing keeps us whole. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to sink into another world:)Beth Shriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411721734374703649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584986441435970939.post-10242984980033211782012-02-07T07:05:55.079-08:002012-02-07T07:05:55.079-08:00I think some aspect of me comes through in all my ...I think some aspect of me comes through in all my characters for better or worse.:) I wish I would have kept all the e-mails through the years of struggle begging for prayer related to issues of my oldest daughter's mental illness. I think I'd have many books on the subject,:) but it was my fiction that kept me sane. Someday. Maybe. The journey continues in different ways but much improved.Jillian Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12565274151603868808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584986441435970939.post-87791711848444771422012-02-06T19:35:01.789-08:002012-02-06T19:35:01.789-08:00How true that you are more exposed in the NF. Good...How true that you are more exposed in the NF. Good for your agent. Sometimes we need encouragement to take that leap. I think being the first in anything is hard. We're taking a risk that somsetimes fails or suceeds. You don't know until you try. I apprecaite your comment.Beth Shriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03411721734374703649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8584986441435970939.post-40613993883294360052012-02-06T19:21:47.004-08:002012-02-06T19:21:47.004-08:00I write both fiction and non-fiction too. And I...I write both fiction and non-fiction too. And I'm hidden in both. Well, more hidden in the novels -- exposed in the nonfiction. <br />There was one especially less-than-perfect moment I'd written about in the first draft of the NF book. I took it out in the second draft. My editor requested I put it back in because there would be other women who felt like me.<br />She was right ... but I I didn't want to be the one going first, you know?<br />But then, somebody had to go first . . . and oftentimes, it's a writer.Beth K. Vogthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04032849469366266791noreply@blogger.com