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Writing to Decide, Deciding to Write

Here I am again, trying to write another first draft.

Every time I start, I stop. Sometimes it’s because I get interrupted. Lately, it’s because something outrageous or amazing or just plain confounding has happened in the world, and I think, Oh, I can’t write about the thing I was going to write about; I have so many thoughts about the new thing, I need to write about that instead. And the new thing is connected to the other thing—

Writing to Decide, Deciding to Write

Heading 2 Heading 3 Here I am again, trying to write another first draft. Every time I start, I stop. Sometimes it’s because I get interrupted. Lately, it’s because something outrageous or amazing or just plain confounding has happened in the world, and I think, Oh, I can’t write about the thing I was going … Read more

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Electric Lemons: Interpretation and the Art of Writing By Judy Fort Brenneman

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