My writing challenge has withstood the pressures of car camping! I wrote my minimum number of words for being in…
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This weekend will be my first camping trip of the season. Car camping, which means I have a few more…
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Five days into my challenge and I’ve met or exceeded my 500 word goal each day. The backpacking season hasn’t…
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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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Well, it took a little longer than I thought it would, especially considering I had the text mostly finished early…
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I’d stopped checking on the word count a while ago, but when I copied the text into my Word template,…
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Dean Wesley Smith gives frequent advice on his blog to writers. And, the advice may sometimes seem repetitive. The same…
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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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