Category: Story
fiction and other truths
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Writers argue, always, about careful crafting on the front end of a project vs. headlong writing to get the story in place before fine tuning sentences and paragraphs. Here’s what Annie Dillard said about that: “The reason to perfect a piece of prose as it progresses — to secure each sentence before building on it…
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The Logitech illuminated keyboard. Perfect for those of us who stagger from the bedroom to the coffee pot and then to the office for a bout of early morning writing before we go to our day jobs (where if we are lucky or perhaps cursed, we also write). The keyboard’s backlit, so you can see…
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In the newsroom where I work cost-cutting measures have led the brain trust there to buy the worst pens on the planet. Since I spend a big chunk of my work week furiously scribbling down what people say to me, I hate bad pens. You have to press hard. The ink often skips and you…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 