Where would reasons end? The Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño once said in an interview: "I don't think reason has anything to do with parent-children relationships, not at all.
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The Journey of a Novel
After taking a couple of non-credit creative writing classes at our local university in the early 2000s, some fellow students and I formed a critique group. We got together every other Thursday night, critiquing one another’s works in progress. I cherish those times and often think about them. While I had always loved to write, this was the first
Reading is Personal
My mother taught me to read simple sentences by the time I was three. And from then on I was required to read a book a week, any book but it had to be challenging, until about the 7th grade. When I started getting homework, my mother stopped giving me hers. I read Huckleberry Finn at least twice when I was eight. That book had a profound influence