“ In a fascinating study shared by The Reading Room, men were found to be quicker to judge a book they’re reading than women are. The study was performed by Jellybooks, who used a bit of JavaScript i…”
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7 ‘strong’ women: writing better female characters
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Photographer Glenna Gordon captures the lives of remarkable women self-publishing romance novels and other stories in northern Nigeria.
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Want to Try Something Knotty? 5 Knots to Save Your Heroine #amwriting https://t.co/r8dpRSTYbc
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12 Steps to Getting Your Heroine Laid: Information for Writers (and other humans) #amwriting #writingtips https://t.co/ZKiNjQmlSv
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Heroine Archetypes, part one. MarisMcKay.com
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Several novels this year starred female protagonists as flawed and interesting as literature’s most memorable male characters.
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by Sue Archer I saw the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron last week. I had been looking forward to watching this movie for a long time, so I did my utmost to avoid encountering any spoilers. I enjoyed it, though I felt that parts of it were uneven and that it didn’t come […]
Mass-market success often leads critics to dismiss even high-minded novels as overly sentimental.
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Although women with substance use disorders (SUDs) have high rates of trauma and posttraumatic stress, many addiction programs do not offer trauma-specific treatments. One promising intervention is Pennebaker’s expressive writing, which involves daily, 20-minute writing sessions to facilitate disclosure of stressful experiences. In one study women in residential treatment completed a randomized clinical trial comparing expressive writing with control writing. An analysis was conducted to measure changes in psychological and physical distress. Analyses also examined immediate levels of negative affect following expressive writing. The results of the study showed that expressive writing participants showed greater reductions in posttraumatic symptom severity, depression, and anxiety scores, when compared with control writing participants. Although expressive writing participants showed increased negative affect immediately after each writing session, there were no differences in pre-writing negative affect scores between conditions the following day. By the final writing session, participants were able to write about traumatic/stressful events without having a spike in negative affect. The results of this study suggest that expressive writing may be a brief, safe, low-cost, adjunct to treatment for substance use disorders as a strategy for addressing posttraumatic distress in substance-abusing women
SUBSTANCE ABUSE, 35: 80–88, 2014 Expressive Writing as a Therapeutic Process for Drug-Dependent Women
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