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Devin Windelspecht's avatar

As a journalist facing a daunting career in freelancing, this brought so much needed strength. Thank you for this!

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Erika Hayasaki's avatar

I am so glad to hear that! Thank you for reading and for your note.

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Delia Lloyd's avatar

I rarely read Q and A's but I really enjoyed this. Especially about why she moved to Montana. Thank you

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Erika Hayasaki's avatar

Thanks, Delia! I also really appreciated her honesty about leaving NY and moving to Montana.

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Mc Nelly Torres's avatar

Awwww...Dang! I would have loved to attend that writing workshop in May but my niece is getting married that weekend.

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Erika Hayasaki's avatar

I am sure Kim will have more! Will continue to update if so.

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Mc Nelly Torres's avatar

Thank you! 🙏

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Matt Crossman's avatar

All of this is excellent, and I nodded vigorously at this:

In New York, most of my friends were writers, journalists, photographers and publishers. Here some of my friends are. But they’re also biologists, construction workers, woodworkers, and health workers. It's good for my brain. It's good for my editing too.

I love that. So much of my social and personal world is not made up of media people.

You need to do that. If you end up spending too much of your time with one type of person, you end up thinking the rest of the world is like that, and it's really not.

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Erika Hayasaki's avatar

I was also “nodding vigorously” at that part. Thanks for reading!

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Darren D'Addario's avatar

This interview is wonderful, Erika.

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Erika Hayasaki's avatar

Thanks Darren!

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