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My Writing Religion: Some Thoughts as 2016 Ends
Originally posted on ShadowSpinners: By Lisa Alber Last week I happened to be listening to NPR as I drove my car back from Handy Andy’s, my neighborhood repair shop, when I realized something about myself. As one does, right? In the midst of the every day, in this case as I grumbled about the gift of…
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5 Reasons You Should Still Pursue a Traditional Book Contract
Even though we all must have our own definition of writing success, this still matters to me: I can’t tell you how often I am asked if I am self-published, and even though it’s a fair question I admit I am a bit sensitive to the assumption that I couldn’t have gotten my book published the…
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Let it begin with me…
There are those in the publishing world who counsel not-yet-famous writers to avoid controversial topics and political statements for fear of alienating readers. I’ve never fully accepted that advice, and today I part ways with it completely. My words here are not political in the party sense, and controversy is a matter of perception. This…
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It’s 4 a.m. somewhere…
4:30 a.m. thoughts “Monkey brain” – that’s what Jim Malarkey, Humanities professor extraordinaire, called it. I experience it most vividly when I close my eyes at night. It’s like flipping a switch to activate a half-dozen new channels of thought that swirl and collide and dance through my brain while I doze (rarely deep sleep).…
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Vacation? What vacation?!
How I Spent My Summer Vacation…with a nod to Sister Mary Elephant After moving almost directly from a busy summer semester teaching three college writing classes to all my last-minute Assistant Director duties for the Antioch Writers’ Workshop to the nine 14-hour days that constitute the workshop itself (interspersed with an unexpected medical emergency and…
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Truth or Art? “We Want Both!”
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: Ned Stuckey-French We’ve struggled through the morning trying to come up with a concise summation of Ned Stuckey-French’s discussion of John D’Agata’s latest anthology, The Making of the American Essay, but the truth is that Stuckey-French’s analysis can’t be reduced to a few sentences. He challenges D’Agata’s ideas on the…
CL Pauwels at Large 