Nothing you write, if you hope to be any good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Literature makes one sensitive, sensitive to people, to their dreams and to their ideas. Sanghamitra Iyengar The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram. Don … Continue reading Getting out of a writing rut
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Weeds and stones in our writing
Floyd McNeill* farmed near the banks of the Moose Jaw River, one of those prairie rivers consisting of a deep, wide valley with a little creek meandering its way along a narrow channel on the bottom. Being near the river bank, there were stones scattered through the fields, some small enough that a man could … Continue reading Weeds and stones in our writing