Category: Writing Life

No One Can Write That

Here's a writer's pitfall that Dan Barden warned us of recently. But he's too late. I've already seen the bottom. We read books. We devour…

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Only Now Learning How to Write

I have started the last class of my MFA program. My last graduate writing workshop is three weeks gone. But there is a hitch. There…

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Sisters and Successors

A pair of weeks ago I went to a reading by the author Jonathan Franzen. He read from his new novel (just finished, not yet…

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A Part That I Want to Get Right

I am currently working on the ending of the latest draft of my novel...the last ten pages.As I edited the ending this last couple of…

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One for Mom

I took my mom to dinner at the Greenwood Park Mall food court the other evening. I try to do this at least every other…

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