I have mentioned in earlier posts that I am working on an essay for Creative Nonfiction’s “Southern Sin” issue, and that I came up with
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“Selling out,” trust and respect
I read Alexis Paige’s essay On Didion and the “Selling Out” Mantra today on Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. In summary, she discusses Didion’s statement that “writers
Identity crisis averted
I’ve been wanting to get off Facebook for quite a while – it was fun at first but I’d like to use social media more
Scheduled!
I know this is exciting only to me, but the Goucher online system now has me formally registered for my fall classes. A couple weeks
Every writer has a voice but me
The more I explore personal essays, the more I fear using the present tense that is a hallmark of many essays. I sit by the
I like magazines
It’s been almost eight months since I ventured back into freelance journalism, and I have to believe that it’s what I was meant to do.
Taking steps or building bricks: pick your metaphor
This is just my 100-word or so blog, so I get to be lazy with rhetorical devices (and questionably grab book covers off Amazon.com, I
Happy or goofy? Vanity says the latter
Here’s one of the photos I had taken yesterday, in color and black and white. I think I look so funny and weird, although the
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