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January 4, 2006

Fondling Your Muse: Fighting Procrastination

by John Warner
November 2, 2005

Dispatches From Adjunct Faculty at a Large State University: Dispatch 5: On Seeing

by Oronte Churm
May 19, 2005

Sestina: Business Writing’s Silent Killer: Passive Voice

by J. Ryan Stradal
March 17, 2005

Dispatches From a Real McSweeney: How Not to Write a Short Story

by Timothy McSweeney
September 30, 2004

Near-Genius at Work: Dan Kennedy Writes His Next Book

by Dan Kennedy
July 16, 2004

Query

by Tom Lombardi
June 22, 2004

Notes on Craft: Some Instructions for Readers and Writers of American Fiction: An Interview with Robert Coover

by Gabe Hudson
January 29, 2004

The Tyrant’s Tales

by Brent Spencer
June 16, 2003

Breaking Through Writer’s Block

by John Warner
June 4, 2003

Rounder Characters in No Time Flat

by John Warner

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