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Creating Safe Boundaries When You're Creating

Creating Safe Boundaries When You're Creating

Risk Is Fine--to a Point--But Can You Also Stay Smart and Sane about What You Share and What You Keep Private?

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Aug 04, 2023
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"It's my story, I lived it, and I can tell it however I like," one student told me. “No one can tell me what not to say.” I knew this writer as a forthright activist, never shying from truth telling and confrontation. Yet I wasn’t surprised when she stopped writing her book, let it dwindle off one summer never to return to…

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