books
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This blog post is the second in a series where I am sharing advice with some of my graduate students in a creative nonfiction workshop. One outcome of this course is that students develop an essay they have revised at least three times in a semester, and as part of a final project, they will
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I basically have a week left of research leave this summer before I go on vacation (and I’ll probably write some more then too). The past couple of months have been a bit of a blur because I’m trying to get so much writing done, though writing scholarly work has gotten easier for me. First
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I just finished the eighth draft of my book Life in Flight. It’s actually the third time I have reworked the entire manuscript start to finish. The first five drafts were me trying to find the story. And now I am ready to query! I wrote my query letter using my voice and some phrases
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I am teaching a creative writing class in the fall, and I’m also working on a memoir manuscript, and I am hoping to make the two endeavors sync up together in meaningful ways by developing a reflective writing and teaching practice. Currently, as I work on revising my manuscript, I am reading through it and
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I am working on the eighth draft of my memoir manuscript, but there are more drafts than that. This is the eighth draft of the book with its current name. In Google docs, it’s called Life in Flight version VIII (it sounds fancier with Roman numerals). My manuscript at its root is a mother-daughter story.
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It was the first grade. I had two pretty influential assignments: one was to write a story, and the other was to write a picture book. I don’t remember what the prompt was, but basically, my first grade writing teacher instructed my class to write a story. There had to be a plot. There had
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