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Subscribe nowToday was the first day of class. My Intermediate Fiction creative writing class will meet twice weekly for the next eight weeks (taking a week…
Read MoreIf you read these blogposts regularly, you'll note there were no posts in September. It wasn't that I had nothing to offer or that I…
Read MoreThis Fall I'll be teaching creative writing at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. I'll be teaching one course'ENG 3232 Intermediate Fiction'each Wednesday and Friday…
Read MoreWhat I am offering here is not mine. It is Charles Baxter's.* I am bringing it here because it was an epiphany for me (or…
Read MoreYou cannot trust your day-in and day-out feelings about your creative work. These are no gauge. They are no metric. They are far too fickle. …
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