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All posts tagged
creative-writing
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September 8, 2020Creative Nonfiction Writing Prompts, Fall 2020
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July 18, 2018If Math Students Acted Like Creative Writing Students
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September 13, 2017An Entreaty to My Creative Writing 101 Students to Please Stop Writing What You Know
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June 23, 2017The MFA Glossary: 42 Quick Words and Phrases You’ll Spend Two Years Learning and Using Over and Over Again in Creative Writing School
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September 16, 2015Help, My Ex-Girlfriend is in My Creative Writing Seminar!
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April 14, 2015Thirteen Creative Writing Exercises for Women
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May 21, 2014Non-Essential Mnemonics: “Tell stories about battles, legends, & tumultuous sexual triangles. Make it fun! Never trade intimate character revelations with endless, ugly ‘talking.’ Show the climax. Telling becomes mostly unnecessary.”
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December 19, 2013I’m the Best Story Idea You’ve Ever Had
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July 22, 2013Going Where the Southern Cross the Dog: A Column About the Blues: MFA Blues
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May 22, 2013Albert Camus, Creative Writing Instructor
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July 12, 2024Schedule of Speakers for the 2024 Republican National Convention
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July 16, 2024Hillbilly Elegy Edited for J. D. Vance’s Vice Presidential Campaign
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May 10, 2024What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
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July 26, 2024Skills You Need as President of the United States or Skills You Need as a Stepmom?
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