being a writer Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/being-a-writer-2/ Sun, 14 Feb 2016 22:12:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 To Be or Not To Be a Writer https://booksbywomen.org/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-writer-by-amanda-brooke/ https://booksbywomen.org/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-writer-by-amanda-brooke/#comments Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:54:07 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15065 I always assumed that authors came from a very special mould. They were the kind of people who spent their childhood scribbling down stories whereas I was a bit of a geek. I had one of the first home computers, a Sinclair ZX81 so I was busy writing computer programs while those budding authors were […]

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