A few years ago I accepted an invitation to serve on a dissertation committee for a brilliant guy who found writing very …
How Do You Get Started Writing an Essay?
To write an essay, a writer begins to collect ideas, dreams, memories, scientific research, scenes, and images about a topic that …
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Writer’s Voice—How Do You Find Yours?
"Writer's voice" is one of the problems that flummoxed me very badly when I was a new writer. I wanted to be a writer badly. …
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In Memory of Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is dead. He was 89. Raven told me about it the morning of the 14th, that Cormac had died the day before, and I …