I recently took two weeks off from writing creatively.
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Quietly Victorious
In Ann Patchett’s craft essay, “The Getaway Car,” she explains that all of her novels follow the same basic premise: a group of strangers are thrown together by circumstance and form a society.
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The beginning of the semester has been a welcome reprieve from my unsuccessful attempts to fill the void.
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Friends don’t let friends read Shakespeare without company.
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As a writer, I am obsessed with endings.
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How many times do I tell the same story?
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Books can be as good a void-filler as anything else.
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Like so many other things in life, Sarah Gerard’s novel, True Love is about grey areas.
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I never imagined that at 25, I’d be stuck with the same bad habit I developed at 13.
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Semisolid Sanity 