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You aren't alone. Romance is 60% of the fiction sold in the U.S.

Jodi Picoult, Anita Shreve, Janet Evanovich (just for fun), Jeffrey Eugididies, Sara Gruen, Bonnie Marson, James Lee Burke and on and on and on...

CPR is very hard work. Arduous. Kicks your pants off difficult. I work in the NICU with preemies, so I don't have to do it on adults, but when I renew my CPR certification, I walk out sore for a couple of days.

For fiction, the best thing to do is join a critique group. Threre are probably crit groups for poetry as well. Most writers don't make enough money to support themselves. Sorry, but it's true. There are the few, the Stehphen King's, the John Grishams, the Nora Roberts, but few make enough...

I'm not deaf, but I do understand the syntax of sign and English are very different. I'm a writer and a nurse. The writing is something I started later on, but like anything else it is practice. Do you like to read? Because if you do, you will absorb a lot that way. Honestly until the last...

Thanks Blackjack and Restless Heart.

Yes. I agree, which is why I am not flying with this concept yet. I'm not easily dissuaded by a challenge, but I'm in the process of rewriting a different manuscript, and I have another work in progress that is giving me a LOT of challenges. I need to finish its first draft before I try the...

Thanks for the insight. As I said, I'm just playing with the concept. Not one written word yet. .

I'm an RN (hearing). I suggest she inquire at some nursing programs and contact her State's Board of Nursing (if she lives in the USA). You can become an RN through a couple of different routes. An associate degree (2 years at a community college), a diploma program (most are no longer in...

Thanks, JamieLynn. Yeah, we could get into a whole writer's discussion on dialogue tags. There's one going on on a different writer's forum I'm on, but that's not so much what I mean as how you format it... Example: "Did you get the oranges I asked you to buy at the market?" Mary asked...

Hello everyone, I'm not deaf or hard of hearing, but I'm interested in Deaf Culture in fiction. I am an aspiring writer and I was wondering how much fiction there is out there with deaf characters/ Deaf Culture depicted realistically. Can anyone point me toward some good books? I'm even...