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I was born in a thatched cottage in the Cotswolds. Oh, you want the truth. Fine. I was born in Brooklyn and educated at Queens College. After leaving school, I saw one of those ads: BE A COMPUTER PROGRAMMER! Take our aptitude test. Since I had nothing else in mind, I took the test-and flunked. The guy at the employment agency looked at my resume and mumbled, “You wrote for your college paper? Uh, we have an opening at Seventeen magazine.” That’s how I became a writer.

I liked my job, but I found doing advice to the lovelorn and articles like “How to Write a Letter to a Boy” somewhat short of fulfilling. So, first as a volunteer, then for actual money, I wrote political speeches in my spare time. I did less of that when I met a wonderful guy,
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Susan Isaacs I talk to myself. Not the usual interior dialogue and crazy ruminations, but out loud. I speak a line of dialogue. In my strongest voice I'll say, "Wh…moreI talk to myself. Not the usual interior dialogue and crazy ruminations, but out loud. I speak a line of dialogue. In my strongest voice I'll say, "What does she say when Joe Shmoe walks into his own house and finds her leafing through his papers?" Then I force myself to answer — aloud.

It's pushing out what's in my head. Articulation works, as in talk therapy and the rite of Confession (though I'm not a maven on the latter).

Writing is scary. Your work is always better in your head than on the page, and you have to face your own lack of perfection. So get out there and then edit yourself to make it better, and better still. Good luck!

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Susan Isaacs Being able to sit alone in a room and telling myself the story I most want to read...which (unfortunately) nobody else is willing to write.


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Being able to sit alone in a room and telling myself the story I most want to read...which (unfortunately) nobody else is willing to write.


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“Keep in mind that the only person to write for is yourself.Tell the story you most desperately want to read.”
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“I hate alliterative names. They suck.”
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“She has been excessively cheery. In a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, that is always a sign of a fairly severe depression.”
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