Category: Role of the Writer

  • Fishing | Writing

    Yesterday I took my family on a four-hour fishing charter off the coast of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. It was a near-shore trip. We were…

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  • My Fixation With Flash Fiction

    It all started last November at 2nd and Charles, a bookstore in Hagerstown, Maryland. It was there, that my friend Al Clingan handed me a…

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  • 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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