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Soul Mates: Fact or Fiction?

4/7/12 8:13am by Melanie Bates
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I need your guts.Ladies.Gentlemen.I need your gut instincts, your intuition, your introspection on a subject that keeps coming up for me.Soul mates? Fact or fiction?  Read more >

How To Write

10/25/11 9:46am by Melanie Bates
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I’ve been writing a novel since the beginning of time. Okay, perhaps that’s a slight exaggeration, but it sure feels like it. In actuality, I started it in 1999 or 2000 and have been working on it, on and off, for twelve years or so. It’s all kinda fuzzy.And I’m only about 160 pages in, so take my advice with a single molecule of salt.The How  Read more >

Wrestling With Breast Cancer

10/10/11 8:36am by Melanie Bates
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As I sit here drinking my sixth cup of java my best friend is walking sixty grueling miles across San Francisco with a gnarly head cold.  It’s hard for me to fathom putting foot to pavement like that when I have to motivate myself to rise and patter to the coffee pot each morn, but she’s been inspired to help put an end to breast cancer.  So, when Save the Ta-tas - an organization simply slathered in Awesome - asked me to be a guest blogger for Breast Cancer Awareness month I knew this was my unique chance to hel  Read more >

Money Is Just Energy, Dummies

9/13/11 10:51am by Melanie Bates
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You know those money issues you struggle with?  The ones that keep you cash poor, that have you maxing out your credit card each month, that keep you from asking for that raise every year? Yeah, those are the ones.  Well, here’s a little something I learned recently – those beliefs and issues surrounding money start WAY earlier than I ever would have imagined.  Read more >

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Full Name
Melanie Bates
Member Since
July 2010
About Me: 

I am a writer. A nomad. A nondescript heathen. A perpetual student. Sometimes I am a Virtual Assistant to Powerful Women (and a Few Kick-Ass Men).

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Writer
Location: 
Wild, Wild West
 

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