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  • Screaming into Canyons, or Learning to Tweet

    I joined Twitter three years ago thinking that somehow I could use the platform to market my nearly nonexistent writing career. I read it on a blog somewhere. And then I hemmed and hawed, and decided before I started to market my nonexistent writing career, I should probably focus on getting my work published. I…

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  • Re-seeing a Story

    Re-seeing a Story

    If you start describing your own personal experiences, something that’s only of interest to yourself, then you can’t express yourself, you cannot say, ultimately what you think about human beings. The moment you say this, you’re committed. –Frank O’Connor   I started writing an essay called “Doin’ Time” about nine years before it finally saw…

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  • The Journey Begins

    The Journey Begins

    This is my first blog posting on my site which details some of my writing adventures. Recently, I discovered that I actually do enjoy writing, the act of it. For years after grad school, I thought I hated writing, and the fact that I still wrote showed me how masochistic I actually was. But then…

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