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Wednesday Writing Exercise: What Is the Word?

I’ve directed you to Janet Fitch’s blog before. Here’s another prompt, what she calls “the best writing exercise ever. Everything I’ve ever written has come from this exercise.” It was a regular feature of my very first writing workshop, designed … Continue reading

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Glowing Bags of Poison

“Hey, look, Ma! I’m a writer!” This is how Ron Carlson, author of four novels (most recently Five Skies) and four collections of short stories, characterized the writing in his first book, Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald, last night at … Continue reading

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