Category: Story
fiction and other truths
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That’s how much time I spent writing this story about the Eugene school district budget after a board meeting that ended at 9 p.m. My editor wanted the story by 10:30 p.m. After a couple of quick, post-meeting interviews and driving back to my place it was 9:45 p.m. I hit the send key at…
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I think Annie Dillard is speaking about the discipline of writing here, and perhaps about perseverance and yet she never says either word. “A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you…
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We writers hold it in such low regard. Yes, I know, a strong verb has more muscle than a modifier. “He yelled,” packs more punch than: “He said loudly.” And yet, listening to my nephew Logan reading the opening pages of a “Harry Potter” book this past holiday, I was struck by how fond J.K.…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 