Category: Story
fiction and other truths
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No words in this documentary of a Himalayan trip organized for injured or PTSD suffering British veterans. Yet it conveys so much.
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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…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 