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THE EPIC GILGAMEK: CHAPTER 9 - DOWN IN DARKNESS
A Brief History of the Trench - A Mineral Miracle - A Very Clamant Moment
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SURVIVING ARRAKIS
An Essay About A Summer Job and Young Love : "The steel mill paid way more than all the other jobs in the area and I needed the loot bad — without it I…
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK: CHAPTER 8 - THE TRENCH
WHAT WAS DONE TO THE BOY - CITY ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW - A DANGEROUS DESCENT
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WRITING IN SPITE OF YOURSELF
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THE NOVEL AWAKENS
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SOMETIMES DREAMS ARE NOT ENOUGH
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PROTECT YOUR READING
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WRITE FOR READERS, NOT FOR WRITERS
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TUTELARY WHISPERS: or HOW TO APPROACH REWRITES
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THE CHRYSALIS FROM READER TO WRITER IS NEVER PAINLESS
Reading is play whose aim is itself. Writing, on the other hand, is a game that the writer can lose.
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK: CHAPTER 7 - THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE ROCK AND THE EGG
FECKLES THE BRAVE - WORDS UNCONDUCIVE TO LIFE - STRANGE RECOVERIES
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WHEN CONFLICT AND CHARACTERS COLLIDE
Extrinsic or Intrinsic Choices, Reader Facing or Character Facing Reveals
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK: CHAPTER 6 - A MOST FEROCIOUS JUSTICE
A desperate exchange - Presumption of innocence - The Body In Pain
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STRATEGIES FOR WRITING YOUR COMMUNITY TO LIFE
Community was not a topic that was explored a lot in my undergraduate writing classes or my MFA
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THE EPIC GILGAMEK: CHAPTER 5 - INSIDE THE GAOL OF THE AUTARCH
Incarceration nation - An unbearable sentence. A fellow prisoner reads Gilgamek's future.
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HOW ECHOES OF OTHER BOOKS BECOME CHANNELS INTO YOUR OWN
and then there are writers who thrive in the company of other voices, who reject the notion that more learning — more story — could ever make the task…
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StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz
StoryWorlds with Junot Díaz
“So howled out for the world to give him a name. The indark answered with wind.” ― Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren :: Reflections on fiction and worldbuilding, on diasporas and elsewheres.
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