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  • 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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    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...
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    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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    Guidelines for Oxford Citation Style Students who have to use oxford writing format for the first time tend to take help from the oxford referencing generator tools....

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  • Yeeeees, thank you for sharing! 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...
  • 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...
  • 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...