Category: Role of the Writer

  • The Status of the Dream – 1993

    I finished my undergrad on the campus of Indiana University/Purdue University, Kokomo. I took Sociological Theory from Dr. Earl Wysong who was a member of…

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  • Style Is Content Is Style

    Tone. Voice. Color. Style. These are four of the many terms that we toss about when attempting to describe the qualities of a piece of…

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  • In Memoriam

    A seat at the Westside Writer’s Workshop sits empty. Andrea Shuman stepped from our presence into the presence of her Creator and Savior on Friday,…

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  • My Big Writerly Lesson for 2017

    I am happiest as a writer when I’m neck deep in the throes of creating a book-length manuscript. I already knew this. I found it…

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  • The Power of Place

    Among the elements of fiction - conflict, character, and place - I could argue for any one of them being the more palpable, the key…

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