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71Roobala Take Me Home
I ran two miles in the morning, then hiked five miles, and biked seven in the evening. In between, I mowed the lawn. Obviously, I didn’t do that every day, but you get the idea. At 58 I was in great shape. I was eating healthily, more or less...
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67Mountains, Streams, and Plywood Wings
Behind our new subdivision home in northwest St. Louis County, farmland stretched for miles where my two older brothers and I ran through cornfields and apple orchards, waded flooded creeks, and rode bareback. Once, on our way home, responding to...
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78The Essence of Teaching and Learning
I remember when my eighteen month old son toddled up to me, put his little finger on my shirt button and said, "That’s a button!" His first complete sentence. Made me proud and excited. The potential. Somehow he had learned language. When I...
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54Book Review Bluntness
Recently, I read a blog, "Like the author... but" by Sharon Wildwind, in which she discusses the awkwardness of responding to a "friend’s book," a technical writer who decided to try fiction. The book was "boring." But Wildwind is reluctant to...
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77The Panic and Pain of Mind-Body Dualism
In the opening scene of the classic semi-autobiographical comic novel Three Men In Boat, the writer Jerome K. Jerome is looking for a hay fever treatment when he casually begins reading about other diseases. By the time he’s finished, he concludes...
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67Are We All Great Writers?
Warning: I’m going to act as if I were younger and full of braggadocio like most of you young writers who boast about your voice, your muse, your "work" and fearlessly market like crazy because you are full of yourselves, as I was. What a...
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57Writers As Poets
In my "Finding Your Fiction" workshops, I usually start a discussion about poetry. Occasionally, someone will say they don’t like poetry and don’t have any desire to read or write poems. Technically, fiction writers (or writers of any sort) do...
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79What Does "Published" Mean?
The word "published" used to carry status, marking a personal, usually cathartic event, after years of toil and "blood on the brow" and indicated that a "publisher" thought you were good enough for them to take the enormous risk of trying to sell...
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63Kindle Crossing - Why Buy an ebook Reader?
I went to turn the page but there was none. I had crossed over. I had forgotten that I was reading an electronic device. I suspect, like many of you, I was fond of explaining why ebooks would never replace real books. Throw them both on the...
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77Conclusion - Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction
"Finding Your Fiction: Concise Steps to Writing Successful Fiction" hubpages are derived from my popular "Finding Your Fiction" workshop in association with St. Louis Writers Workshop and St. Louis Writers Guild. Completed guide is NOW AVAILABLE...
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