Today’s RNRHS post is from my amazing writing critique partner, Karen Stivali.  Karen and I met online on the Nathan Bransford forums.  I posted a question about writing and sex and Karen not only answered it, I remember thinking that it was a damn good answer.  Lo and behold, she sent me a board message the next day inquiring about whether I might want a critique partner. We were really lucky to find each other.  Freakishly lucky.  We were both at the same place with our manuscripts at…

I have amazing stuff this week from Stephen Akin and Chris Phillips.  I’d planned to post their entries last week, but Stephen had some major excitement in his life with the arrival of a healthy baby boy, Charlie.  Congrats to Stephen and his wife, Andrea.  I thought it best to wait a week before making his life more complicated by posting his adolescent memories on the Internet.  Stephen’s entry is fascinating to me–lots of Chapel Hill music folklore, some of it familiar because I’ve heard about it from…

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