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A Character History
Being a brief history of your author and the circumstances which led her to take up the pen…
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Writing Is More Than A Solo Adventure
When the writing gets lonely, you must gather your party before venturing forth…
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Diagnosing the Body
The first time I end up in the mental ward, I swear it’ll be the only time… a short memoir.
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A Story is a Moment of Change
One of the first exercises that we were assigned during my writing studies at UNC Asheville was the “circular story”. In a page or so, we were to write a complete narrative. The caveat, of course, was that the story had to begin and end “in the same place”…
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The Liturgy of the Word
A flash memoir on loss and religion, this piece was originally published in the print edition of the 2012 edition of Headwaters, UNCA’s creative arts magazine.
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Writing is a Long and Winding Road
All we can do is take Things day by day… I have a confession to make: I am a slow writer. Like snail’s pace slow. Like sloth-migration slow. Like glacier creating a lake bed in granite during the deepest depths of an ice age slow. I blame most of this literary sluggishness on the fact…
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Let’s Start Something New
Scribbler, scratcher, new first drafter, how does your garden grow?
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Are You Taking Your Writing Seriously?
Until we decide to take our writing seriously, it remains all too easy to dismiss our words…
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A Year of Stories
It’s time for a new beginning. Here’s to many more…
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Where Do You Find the Joy?
When life gets hectic, it can be hard to trust the process…
