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A Writer’s Theme
In Brooks and Warren’s Understanding Fiction — a great book for writers — they posit that most great writers have one or two themes that they explore in great depth over their lifetimes. “A good writer does not offer us, for instance, a glittering variety of themes. He [sic] probably treats, over and over, those…
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Starting Fresh
Whenever I open my browser, my WordPress site appears as my home page. But before it fully loads, I hurriedly navigate away. It’s become an automatic thing for me to avoid it. Well, I’m going to try and restart this yet again. I never stopped writing. The actual habit of sitting down to write and…
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Should Literacy Be Compulsory?
I know why literacy matters to me. It simply does. I write so it’s in my interest to be able to do so. I think it’s important to keep a glib, perhaps stupid perspective like this. I didn’t always. Years ago I worked as a teacher who taught others how to read and write, and…
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