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  • 7 min

Making It Up

  • Mark Wagstaff
  • September 6, 2022
My mother was a great reader of romances. Not the classic kind. The sort that make money. In my far-back childhood in the last century, reading a book was still a usual way to pass time.
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  • 5 min

Never Gonna Give It Up

  • Amy Sedivy
  • July 7, 2022
I guess I am a lesson in never giving up. I’m almost 70 (well, I just turned 69 so 70 is a year away – still seems like almost). I…
It's a London thing
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  • 4 min

It’s a London thing

  • Koushik Banerjea
  • June 20, 2022
Ever find yourself rolling your eyes when you hear that phrase ‘back in the day’? As often as not uttered by some grisled cynic bemoaning the loss of an older…
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  • 10 min

On Telling a Fractal: Parsing Patterns in My Prose

  • Geoffrey Dutton
  • May 27, 2022
When you look at a mathematical fractal, you see self-similarity; not only do different parts of the figure look almost alike, it looks the same as you zoom in and out of it, its form governed by the parameters of the iterative algorithm that generates it. Can narratives similarly iterate by filling time rather than space, recapitulating condensed or expanded versions of events and examples of themes?
The Mount, Edith Wharton house
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A Matter of Serendipity

  • M. Betsy Smith
  • February 7, 2022
Today, I am reveling, writing in Edith Wharton’s house, The Mount. It’s quiet. I am sitting at a small table in front of a window in the room on the third floor that was Henry James’ bedroom. I knew I wanted to write from an early age but lacked the courage to pursue my dream. I was a born reader but that didn’t mean I could write. It’s not that easy.
Beaches & Blues
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  • 7 min

The Beach and the Blues

  • Seth Foster
  • February 2, 2022
“A Train Whistle Blows” was my first short story that was not conceived and developed from first-hand experiences or any individual(s) that I’ve encountered, known, read about, interacted with, or…
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  • 7 min

My Pilgrimage to Publication

  • Jeff Schnader
  • December 21, 2021
Who I Am & How I Started: For thirty-five years, my career was as a full Professor of Medicine, doing scientific research, teaching, editing a peer review journal, running Intensive…
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  • 4 min

Twenty-Eight Years and Counting

  • Stephen Newton
  • November 14, 2021
Seed of Doubt, my novel in progress, was inspired by a true crime that I researched for more than a year with the intention of writing an article for a…
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  • 5 min

Any Road Will Take You There

  • Reyna Marder Gentin
  • October 27, 2021
In an album released after his death in 2001, George Harrison shared this wonderful observation: “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” When I think about the past seven years and my writing journey, Harrison’s words resonate.
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The Journey of a Novel

  • Piper Templeton
  • October 10, 2016
Sometimes writing a novel takes a winding, unexpected path. For author Piper Templeton, that path included Hurricane Katrina and picking up the pieces.

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