Alternative Approaches to Creative Writing (now titled: How Dare We! Write

Alternative Approaches to Creative Writing:  a writer’s journey Or, perhaps Alternative Text for Creative Writers: a university instructor’s curriculum, or perhaps any number of titles I’ve conjured.  For several years I’ve been asking the question what colorful writer has written a book about writing.  Recently I discovered Black Lightning:  poetry-in-Progress, edited …

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Sometimes the Easy Way Out is Not All That Easy or Why I (really) Chose to Edit an Anthology

Sometimes the Easy Way Out is Not All That Easy or Why I (really) Chose to Edit an Anthology   The truth is I have wanted a book by a writer or writers of color (WOC) about the craft of writing for my own personal use as a WOC, and …

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RESPONSIBILITY

NOTE:  this is another in a series of  chapter drafts to be included in the book ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO WRITING:  A MIXED-RACE WRITER’S JOURNEY  (tentative title).  This particular chapter took me in a direction I wasn’t planning on traveling, thus the road is windy and full of rocks-the key word as …

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