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Christi Craig is a native Texan living in Wisconsin, working by day as a sign language interpreter and moonlighting as a writer. She leads a creative writing class at a retirement center and a Roundtable at Redbird-Redoak Writing. She is a regular contributor at Write It Sideways and an Editorial Assistant for COMPOSE: A Journal of Simply Good Writing. Her stories and essays have appeared online and in print, and she was a Finalist in Glimmer Train's Family Matters Competition.
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Pumping Up Your Image
During one of the early writing classes I took, I received a red envelope from my instructor, Ariel Gore. This wasn’t just any red envelope. It was small and was decorated with Vietnamese characters written in gold. A drawing of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ariel Gore, character development, characters, fiction, imagery, memoir, perspective in writing, Rewrites, writing, writing exercise, writing process, writing questions
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Reviewing Toxic Feedback: How Joni B. Cole Helps Writers Survive and Thrive
“…[W]riting is a solitary effort, but it doesn’t have to be a lonely one — and that is the real gift of feedback” (p. 4) The word “feedback” sends my heart racing in excitement and throws my stomach in a … Continue reading
Balancing Form and Function
I’m nearing the end of week two of NaNoWriMo, and this year I’ve spent almost as much time analyzing my process as I have pouring words out onto the screen. There are several writers’ views of NaNoWriMo: some love the … Continue reading
Posted in fiction, writing
Tagged fiction, first drafts, NaNoWriMo, Novel, writing process
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