fiction

  • Tips for Publishing Your CNF

    Tips for Publishing Your CNF

    I am teaching a graduate creative nonfiction class this semester, and an outcome of this course is that students will have a draft that they have revised three times and they will send it out to places for publication. I am writing this blog entry for my students, and I am going to make part

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  • A Revision Story

    A Revision Story

    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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  • When I first became a writer

    When I first became a writer

    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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