WRITING EXERCISES BASED ON A YEAR OF WEEKLY WRITING PROMPTS

Four years ago I moved to a new city. I knew no one except the person I moved to the city to be closer to. After three years I decided to be proactive. I visited the nearby senior citizen center and asked about writing opportunities because I always tell myself …

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How Dare We Write! 2nd Edition Reading at East Side Freedom Library, October 16, 2022

Contributors to How Dare We! Write read their own works! “This book turned out to be unlike any writing reference book I have read. Of the thirty-odd writing books in my collection, many have spoken to my identity as one who loves the written word, as a recovering perfectionist, as …

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WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY

WHAT MATTERS TO ME IS STORY It’s been six months since my memoir in verse, Septuagenarian, debuted.  I think about this as another Minnesota poet, and another, and another has released another book of poems.  I think about how different our voices are. How different our techniques. I am less …

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