Comments on: Using the power for good http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/ women's fiction for romance lovers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rachel http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-596 Rachel Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:22:33 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-596 The hardest thing for me to do is to lay bare my own emotions and fears, my sense of inadequacy…but wait. That's not it. The hardest thing is to state out loud that I'm not completely inadequate. That maybe I have achieved my dream, albeit on a smaller scale. Oh my gosh! Maybe we're all successful! The hardest thing for me to do is to lay bare my own emotions and fears, my sense of inadequacy…but wait. That’s not it.
The hardest thing is to state out loud that I’m not completely inadequate. That maybe I have achieved my dream, albeit on a smaller scale.

Oh my gosh! Maybe we’re all successful!

]]> By: Laura Drake http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-595 Laura Drake Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:13:14 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-595 Rachel - Now THAT was inspiring! If you keep at it, you WILL be published. I know this, because this is why we read - to read something that reaches inside you and touches you in a way that makes you say, "I didn't know anyone else felt that." Laura Drake Rachel – Now THAT was inspiring! If you keep at it, you
WILL be published. I know this, because this is why we read – to read something that reaches inside you and touches you in a way that makes you say, “I didn’t know anyone else felt that.”
Laura Drake

]]> By: Connie Cox http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-594 Connie Cox Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:27:20 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-594 Great post! Thanks for reminding us all that NYT lists can be wonderful, but just as wonderful are those personal moments with those we love best. Great post! Thanks for reminding us all that NYT lists can be wonderful, but just as wonderful are those personal moments with those we love best.

]]> By: Therese Walsh http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-593 Therese Walsh Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:18:05 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-593 Loved this post, Rachel, and your sense of humor. Here's to hoping NY does "get" you soon, because I'd honestly like to read your work. Loved this post, Rachel, and your sense of humor. Here’s to hoping NY does “get” you soon, because I’d honestly like to read your work.

]]> By: Michelle Diener http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-592 Michelle Diener Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:25:00 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-592 Rachel, what a wonderful blog post. Thank you so much for sharing. My goal as a writer is to touch those who read my work, just as I have been touched countless times through my whole life by wonderful books. Rachel, what a wonderful blog post. Thank you so much for sharing. My goal as a writer is to touch those who read my work, just as I have been touched countless times through my whole life by wonderful books.

]]> By: Edie Ramer http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-589 Edie Ramer Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:13:36 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-589 Rachel, I love this. To make readers laugh and cry and laugh again is my ultimate goal. Don't think I can do that with my life (which would bring snickers), so I'm sticking to fiction. I think the man you met at the dinner party was right and you are very powerful. Rachel, I love this. To make readers laugh and cry and laugh again is my ultimate goal. Don’t think I can do that with my life (which would bring snickers), so I’m sticking to fiction.

I think the man you met at the dinner party was right and you are very powerful.

]]> By: Patti http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-587 Patti Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:48:54 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-587 I just read "Using the Power for Good" and it really struck a chord for me. My sister Kathy is the only one who has read my two books and when she called me and said she cried when one of the characters got shot and was in a coma, "I" almost cried. That my book could evoke emotion in anyone was thrilling to me! I realized that was what I wanted - for someone to read what I'd written and for it to make someone FEEL something. Even though I'm still working on it and it definitely is what I just discovered a WIP means, and it may never make it onto ANY bookshelf but my own, it really moves ME when I write and that should count for something, eh? I just read “Using the Power for Good” and it really struck a chord for me. My sister Kathy is the only one who has read my two books and when she called me and said she cried when one of the characters got shot and was in a coma, “I” almost cried. That my book could evoke emotion in anyone was thrilling to me! I realized that was what I wanted – for someone to read what I’d written and for it to make someone FEEL something. Even though I’m still working on it and it definitely is what I just discovered a WIP means, and it may never make it onto ANY bookshelf but my own, it really moves ME when I write and that should count for something, eh?

]]> By: Kathy Holmes http://www.rwa-wf.com/2010/03/29/using-the-power-for-good/comment-page-1/#comment-586 Kathy Holmes Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:39:54 +0000 http://www.rwa-wf.com/?p=1768#comment-586 That is a wonderful story. I was reading Kathie Lee's book and it she talked about sharing her personal pain with a Bishop and he put his arms around her and asked her to offer it up for others. And so she went to Washington and did something about underpaid workers. Anyway, that encouraged me to keep speaking out about an issue that's important to me - fatherless daughters - and why I put my book "Myths of the Fatherless" on Kindle after retiring it, thinking I should be focusing on fiction only. Anyway, I think this relates to your blog post because your story validates sharing ourselves and our writing - it helps us and it helps others - even if we don't make a big New York splash with it all. Thanks for sharing your story. That is a wonderful story. I was reading Kathie Lee’s book and it she talked about sharing her personal pain with a Bishop and he put his arms around her and asked her to offer it up for others. And so she went to Washington and did something about underpaid workers. Anyway, that encouraged me to keep speaking out about an issue that’s important to me – fatherless daughters – and why I put my book “Myths of the Fatherless” on Kindle after retiring it, thinking I should be focusing on fiction only. Anyway, I think this relates to your blog post because your story validates sharing ourselves and our writing – it helps us and it helps others – even if we don’t make a big New York splash with it all. Thanks for sharing your story.

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