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Willa Cather’s Tantalizing Opening Paragraphs

June 2, 2016June 16, 2011
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The Tantalizing Power of Opening Paragraphs When you are in a library or bookstore, how do you choose which books to take home? In addition to checking out the back cover for blurbs from either published authors I admire or prominent book reviews, I usually read the first page or first paragraph, and I know. …

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Categories feature, practice, writing habits Tags Willa Cather 6 Comments

Beware the Virtual Sitting-Room

June 20, 2017January 18, 2011

The spring semester has begun for my husband and son, I don’t teach until this afternoon, and I am alone in the house for the first time in five weeks. Even as I type these words, I feel a twinge of guilt, hoping that if my family reads this post, they don’t think I didn’t …

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Categories Blogs & Blogging, feature, Motivation, the writing life Tags Virginia Woolf 8 Comments
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