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May The Arc Be With You

Tweet The student of writing can come up with myriad metaphors for what writing is like. Call it painting. Call it shipbuilding. Call it a political race. Let me tell you one of my favorites. Writing is like sculpting. You take this raw idea and you cut away the unnecessary, the amorphous. What is left […]

What I Learned About Writing This Week…from Starting A New Blog

Many moons ago — before Facebook became open to the general public, when “twitterpated” was still a Bambi and not a social networking reference, and before YouTube made movie stars out of all of us — I started a blog. I don’t remember why I did it. I plunged into writing my first post without giving it any real thought before I started. I hadn’t the foggiest idea what I was doing…