Category: Writing Life

  • On Reading at Morgan

    In Morgan Library, on the campus of Grace College, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I spent hours among the periodicals, specifically the literary…

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  • A Change in Setting Revealed

    In November I experienced A Change in Setting. I packed up my writing space––my table and chair, fifty boxes of books (and their bookcases), a…

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  • That Flash of Delight

    Writing is a slow-going effort. It’s a solitary and troublesome venture. What keeps a writer coming back to his chair day after day? There are…

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  • My First Reader

    My writing, when first born, is a very ugly baby. Seriously. You don’t see the first draft of anything. If you did you would say,…

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  • A Change in Setting

    My writing table is cleared but for a box of Puffs tissues, a Moleskine calendar, a short stack of books headed for donation, a small…

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