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Writing Wednesday: Who Is the Patron Saint of Your Writing?
“Who is the patron saint of your writing?” my lit instructor inquired. I’m taking a class that looks at how classic works of literature inspire contemporary works. We look, for example, at how Evan S....
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David Foster Wallace Appreciation Project
The folks over at Broadcastr asked me to participate in the David Foster Wallace Appreciation Project. I’ve written a little bit about Wallace here on the blog as well as over on Burnside (also, check...
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“On the Road” Makes “30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30”
Flavorwire listed “30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Turning 30,” and guess what’s on the list?! That’s right, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Unfortunately, this follows its inclusion: Plus, then...
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The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
I am so excited to have been tagged by Maria Karamitsos for the The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. Even though I’m not a mother, I love reading Maria’s blog From the Mommy Files, which is full of humor and...
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From the Comments Section: Kerouac and Steinbeck
If you happened to read the comments from my post Research, Research, Research, you saw me and author J. Haeske — of the fantastic photo tour blog Retracing Jack Kerouac and the book Anywhere Road –...
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Writing Wednesday: When Two Words Become One
Welcome back to Aristophanes week! Yesterday I mentioned that fun bit of trivia that Aristophanes is the creator of the longest word in literature that I gleaned from Oliver Tearle’s Huffington Post...
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Happy 115th Birthday, Hemingway!
Ernest Hemingway on safari, Kenya, 1954, via the JFK Library That irascible author Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. One of my friends, a fellow Scrippsie, actually...
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11 Ways to Create Tension
I’m trying to build more tension into my memoir and turned to the internet for advice on how to build tension. Here are eleven tips for creating tension in your book: Now Novel’s How to Create Tension...
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I’m pleased to share with you a new panel that I’ve organized! On September 24th at 7pm, the Redeemer Writers Group will kick off their first meeting of the fall with the panel discussion “On...
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