Comments on: How to Be Brave in Your Writing http://www.writerlylife.com/2010/07/how-to-be-brave-in-your-writing/ With daily writing exercises, tips and techniques, and thoughts on the writing life, Writerly Life is for the writer in all of us. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Links Worth Sharing « Whole Living Gal http://www.writerlylife.com/2010/07/how-to-be-brave-in-your-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-2220 Links Worth Sharing « Whole Living Gal Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:16:03 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=2163#comment-2220 [...] ***It takes courage to be a writer. Here’s a good article about bravery in your writing. [...] [...] ***It takes courage to be a writer. Here’s a good article about bravery in your writing. [...]

]]> By: mary brady http://www.writerlylife.com/2010/07/how-to-be-brave-in-your-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-1495 mary brady Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:23:53 +0000 http://www.writerlylife.com/?p=2163#comment-1495 Blair--do you have any comment on the recent news that the originator of "Men with Pens" is a woman who wrote under a man's name for years because it was the only way her work got published? Wild, no? She said that as long as she submitted work with her female name, nothing sold. She changed to a man's name and bingo--her/'his' career took off like a rocket. She continued as a male blogger on Men with Pens, and found herself nominated as the best writing blogger. After that, she "came out" as a woman. As she noted, "I had to make a living for my two kids," and that was her only reason for changing her name. Once her career--and the blog, especially--took off, she had to keep it up. I don't blame her at all. I even wonder if "Men with Pens" as a website name isn't "tongue in cheek" in this day and age. What real male would pick such a non-PC title for a blog? Anyway, thought you'd have a thought or two about this, since you ARE a woman with a pen and all...L&K, MaryB Blair–do you have any comment on the recent news that the originator of “Men with Pens” is a woman who wrote under a man’s name for years because it was the only way her work got published?

Wild, no? She said that as long as she submitted work with her female name, nothing sold. She changed to a man’s name and bingo–her/’his’ career took off like a rocket.

She continued as a male blogger on Men with Pens, and found herself nominated as the best writing blogger. After that, she “came out” as a woman.

As she noted, “I had to make a living for my two kids,” and that was her only reason for changing her name. Once her career–and the blog, especially–took off, she had to keep it up.

I don’t blame her at all. I even wonder if “Men with Pens” as a website name isn’t “tongue in cheek” in this day and age. What real male would pick such a non-PC title for a blog?

Anyway, thought you’d have a thought or two about this, since you ARE a woman with a pen and all…L&K, MaryB

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