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Chapter 195: When a Story Stays With You
There’s a useful analogy to describe how certain stories keep recurring in our lives: finding them is like discovering a new word, in the sense that…
Nov 21
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 194: Searching for the Soldiers Who Became Our Dads
My friend Dan Sneider emailed the other day about his father.
Nov 14
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 193: Story Without End. Amen
One of the most tired refrains about the writing life is that the joy comes not in the work itself but in having done it.
Nov 7
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 192: But Will There Be Any Readers Left? YES!
Over the summer a report appeared that confirmed every suspicion, fear, and I-told-you-so about reading habits: fewer people in the United States and…
Oct 31
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 191: Hearing Voices
A voice can be telling, in more ways than one.
Oct 24
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Diego Courchay
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Chapter 190: The Gifts of Failure
I make no secret of what a woeful student I was.
Oct 17
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Michael Shapiro
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Chapter 189: Rudy, Koch, Rev. Al and…yes…The Donald
Few literary devices remind me more of the woeful student I was than a front-of-the-book glossary of characters that presumably I am asked to commit to…
Oct 10
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Michael Shapiro
Chapter 188: Writing Help from Steven Kwan, MLB All-Star
I suspect it was not Steven Kwan’s intention to offer advice to writers struggling with fear, anxiety, stress – afflictions so many of us endure.
Oct 3
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Michael Shapiro
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