I don't have an MFA. My bachelor's degree is in journalism and my master's degree is i...it comes to fiction writing, I think the school of life is as important as any mode of formal education. That sai...
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That's not an elementary question at all. Getting started isn't hard for me because wh...k in the voice of a child for a few pages. Something about shifting OUT of the mode I'm working in gets me intere...
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It really is scary to consider the road education is taking. When I was a kid we had to memorize everything. State capitals, presidents, facts about the presidents, sp...
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Deconstructing Dark Romance, (Exploring the darker side of human nature in fiction)
What is dark romance? That was a question I was asked recently.
For me as a...
Cedar Hawk Songmaker was born and lived all her life in Minneapolis. Yet she's never heard the music of ice breaking in the Mississippi River, and she’s seen just one...
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You state things so clearly that I can really nod too,...t my instincts as a paid writer (which have been set to "panic and desperation mode" for a few months) have been...
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Thanks for this thoughtful and important posting, Deborah. I imagine that your thought...I wouldn't write about anything happening in real time, only in retrospect. A Modern Love column I wrote a few w...
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Hi, Brooke,
I note your comment twoard the bottom that we live in a "confessional society," which fosters a readership for misery memoir. That, along with our cult of...
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