I've been very blessed with great mentors. Rob Roberge and Gayle Brandeis in particular helped shape my work. Cheryl Strayed totally saved me in workshop - saved Growing Chocolate - with her suggestion to flip the last two chapters. I did have to go back and clean some things up, but that change kept the tone consistent all… Continue reading Who Needs A Mentor?
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Do You Read As A Writer Or A Reader?
Two disparate events this week - we put up Lee Stoops' annotation of Volt, Alan Heathcock's short story collection, on Annotation Nation. Then, Wild, the memoir by my friend and mentor Cheryl Strayed was chose by Oprah to relaunch her book club into Oprah 2.0. Wow. I feel remarkably luck to have had Cheryl as… Continue reading Do You Read As A Writer Or A Reader?
Diane Sherlock 
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