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Dean Wesley Smith calls the next few months of the year the time of great forgetting. It’s far enough from…
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I feel pretty good about the first revision of my second story for class. And that’s actually a bit of…
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I did not intend to take the class that I’m taking this semester. The class that I wanted to take…
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On Tuesday, before my Writing Creative Nonfiction class, I overheard a classmate talking about the writing that they’d done this…
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I keep up with reading the blog of Dean Wesley Smith. He writes about writing, and about the business of…
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This semester, I’m taking a class on Creative Nonfiction. So far, I’m enjoying it. The teacher has been with the…
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