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Should We Set Writing Goals?
I am writing this on New Year’s Eve, in the midst of the resolution-setting season. As I’m sitting here, I imagine that writers out there in the world are considering whether or not to set writing goals for the upcoming year. A born plan-maker and strategy-formulator myself, I have posed writing challenges for myself in… Read more
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The Letter “A” Is Yellow
This semester I assigned my creative writing students to write a concrete poem—one in which words are placed on the page so that they create an image that helps to convey the poet’s message. One student wrote her poem in the form of a square. When we workshopped it in class, I suggested that the… Read more
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Surfing the Web’s Great Creative Nonfiction
I am always looking for great creative nonfiction that is easily accessible on the Web. Here are some essays that I have found recently. I hope you will check them out and enjoy them. . Hannah Howard Grilled Cheese and Grief: How I Cooked My Way through Postpartum Depression I’m a fan of Hannah Howard’s books… Read more
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Reasons to Keep Writing
Writing is hard work. Maintaining a regular writing practice can be thankless. You don’t always get the recognition and support that you deserve. Your writing gets rejected. Or ignored. You may question your ability. You may wonder why you keep doing it, or if you should. At times when you feel that your writing is… Read more
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An Actress, a Witch, and Me
I confess. I was one of the generation of children who got off the school bus in the afternoons and ran home to avoid missing even one second of my favorite TV show, Dark Shadows. Airing from 1966 to 1971, the one-of-a-kind gothic soap opera mesmerized millions of kids and hordes of housewives with its… Read more
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Write the Book You Want to . . . wait . . . what?
If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it. Toni Morrison Who are we writing for, anyway? Since Toni Morrison died in 2019, I have encountered many times the above comment attributed to her. And every time I think of it, something about it… Read more
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