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Nov.20.2010
November 20
The Story as a Stowaway
I want to tell you a story, but I want to tell it to you quickly, so I can give it to you and then you can carry it on your way. For what good is my story to you if you must leave it where it lay? Your need to be elsewhere...
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Nov.18.2010
If you live in Southern Illinois, you probably know not to go walking in the woods tomorrow. Today has been a busy day for hunters--putting up tree stands, getting guns and ammunition ready to go, looking for deer scrapings, and getting camouflage and red coats laid out for an early morning in the...
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Jun.12.2009
Here's an interesting exercise that will tell you a lot about writing, though I will refrain from making some large and glaring pronouncement as implied in the headline to this post as the sample size is not nearly large enough to prove that point. However, this does show what it means to be a good...
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Mar.25.2009
The beauty of being a story teller is that I have an infinite number of universes and possibilities. If I can imagine it, it can happen, and I can imagine a lot!
I have six or eight books floating around in my head right now. They include technical, fiction, non-fiction, children's, and other...
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Mar.12.2009
Sue Shellenbarger wrote a great article (Work & Family column in the Wall Street Journal) today about the value of family story telling between generations. Here's an excerpt: "As parents cut budgets, many are finding family stories have surprising power to help children through hard...
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Feb.27.2009
Blog: “I Must tell so I Must Write”
I couldn’t wait to finish high school, so I could begin Wilfred Academy, school of cosmetology. I wanted to be a hairstylist. I wanted it so bad that it was all I could think about, and dreamed of, every time I looked at someone— I imagined how I...
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