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Those were the words that Carol Quillen, the president of Davidson College, my alma mater, has told its current students and is also the tagline…
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Reviews. I’m convinced that they’re they bane of every writer’s existence. Truly. Our very lives as writers hinge on them. We hold our breaths as…
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Theme. That’s an elusive term to grasp. If a writer pushes too hard at a theme, it’s easy to overdo, and she comes across as…
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Many of you know that, surprise, surprise, I was not an English major in college. I was a physics major, and the language I spoke…
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[caption id="attachment_1120" align="alignleft" width="269"] Photo courtesy of www.flickr.com and Tetsumo.[/caption] In February, I attended a writer’s retreat. We ate chocolate. Talked a lot, laughed, and…
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