Posted on October 18, 2009 by j3black
My friend Jane invited me to her meme about learning to write. The assignment is to write about three contradictory practices that helped in my development. Mine aren’t necessarily contradictory, just not obviously connected, but they overlap quite a bit.
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I aced my senior composition project in high school. Grades don’t necessarily reflect what students learn, [...]
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Posted on September 29, 2009 by j3black
To mark the U.S. release of Streisand’s new album, Love is the Answer, here’s an essay I wrote about my partner’s adoration of her. It’s been rejected by some classy publications, so I may as well share it here.
Part one appeared yesterday.
Here’s part two…
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Streisand is part of our lives. A member of our [...]
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Posted on September 28, 2009 by j3black
Anticipating tomorrow’s U.S. release of Streisand’s new album, Love is the Answer, here’s an essay I wrote about my partner’s adoration of her. It’s been rejected by some classy publications, so I may as well share it here.
Part one today. Part two tomorrow.
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My partner Doug asked me to go with him to see Barbra [...]
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Posted on September 24, 2009 by j3black
You’re looking for something, so you type some search terms and get some blog called Quota. You’re pulled in by the elegant prose and can’t help but admire the depth of the writer’s insight, but you wonder why the Web 2.0 oracle directed you to some whiny writer’s blog when you were looking for a [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2009 by j3black
I’ve been revising some pieces of writing during the past few weeks in my spare time. By “spare time,” I mean that I’ve been sitting my butt down and limiting distractions as much as possible. As a writer with a day job that doesn’t allow me time to write what I want (i.e., like anybody [...]
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