Thank you, I'm flattered. 😊 You can find my books by going to your favorite book seller's site and searching for River Adams. A novel: The Light of Seven Days. A biography: There Must Be YOU. My website has links to both books and some short prose: riveradamsauthor.weebly.com

Why, yes. 😊

I think "thinking twice"--or many times--is always a good idea. As for adverbs, I take Hemingway's advice, as I do any advice, with a dollop of respect and a grain of salt. He's the father of a particular minimalist style, but in my style, all's good in moderation. #writing #writingcommunity #prose

So much suffering around... I tell patients who are scared, "You're strong. Your survival record so far is an unbeatable 100%! We can do this together."

Ours is awesome too, and we always tell her how grateful we are. And we leave cards for her in our mailbox. They have very hard jobs!

Luck! And butt pressure sores 🤪

I just taught a special topics class pretty much summarized by your post at the Sewanee Writers Conference. "Write what you know" is a slippery slope that, at the foot of the hill, leaves us with nothing but memoirs.

I am so with you on this! I love chapter titles. Then my agent says to me, "Put this info in the text." "It's in the chapter title," I say. She says, "Nobody reads chapter titles." And I cry. 🙄

I write like you: as clean a copy as possible in the first draft. However, the advice you quote works for a lot of people who suffer from doubts, hyper-editing, attention deficit, and more. If they mind the mess they create as they go, they'll never finish. The tip's not bad. Just not for everyone.