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Yvonne Spence

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As a child, Yvonne Spence loved writing stories. She wrote a "novel" at the age of 13, full of secret treasure, shadowy villains and young heroines.

Having completed the novel she shoved it away in cardboard box. Three years later when she was meant to be tidying her room and instead was rifling through the contents of cardboard boxes, she found it again. Writing still happened in exercise jotters then and rewriting was not a term she had heard, let alone tried, so that novel went up in flames and posterity will never know if it was any good.

However, Yvonne Spence eventually did get the hang of rewriting and has written and rewritten many short stories, some of which have won prizes and some of which are available in the ebook Looking For ...more

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Review of Nonfiction Alchemy by Jordan Ring

How Jordan Ring's "Nonfiction Alchemy" helped when writing my nonfiction book.

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Average rating: 3.93 · 43 ratings · 9 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Drawings in Sand 3.91 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Compassionate Mind

by Paul A. Gilbert

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This Side of Forever (Forever Series)

by Jo Chandler (Goodreads Author)

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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

by Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Yvonne said: " This is not the sort of book you read in an evening. At least, it's not the sort of book I read in an evening. It takes time: time to read it, time allow your mind to absorb what is written. It's not so much that what Maharaj says is new and surprisi ...more "

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Yvonne Spence wrote a new blog post Review of Nonfiction Alchemy by Jordan Ring How Jordan Ring's "Nonfiction Alchemy" helped when writing my nonfiction book.
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