Category: Role of the Writer

Read Aloud

Do you read your writing aloud to yourself? Is this part of your writing process? Yes? Good. You can stop reading here. Well done. Carry…

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When Our Delight Becomes a Task

We live in a fast-paced, routinely and deeply dissatisfying culture. This is not news. We live it. It is the water. We are the fish.…

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A Pair of Metaphors

Some days the writing really works - it just pops and flows – but other days it feels like you're in the center ring, in…

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[Don’t] Write What You Know

"Write what you know." This is a very old bit of advice for fiction writers. The idea is that your life is far more interesting…

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Westside Writer’s Workshop

There are six people who are now meeting once a month in Danville, Indiana, to talk about and get better at the craft of writing.…

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