Category: writing assignments
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Free write
The kind of writing I’ve taught has always been fact based. Free writing is not easy for me. I wrote for a living, but my work was for very specific needs and goals. I liken free writing to what I’ve always been told about meditation: let your mind go blank, don’t concentrate on anything, think…
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First stab at fiction
Prompt 3: Using the Pentoprint First Line Generator, click the pink button that reads, “generate first line” “She knew something was wrong when she looked at her baby for the first time, she just couldn’t love it.” How could she love a reminder of such trauma and pain? She didn’t even know who the father…
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I make books
Assignment: Introduce yourself in a few words or sentences. I make books. That was my elevator speech. And I’ve done it for fifty years. There’s not a lot that I know about anything else. I wrote textbooks, (social studies & language arts), healthcare, and business I know how books are edited differently from newspapers, magazines,…