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For the next several Sundays, I’d like to introduce you to writers new and seasoned as they share what inspires them to put #PenToPaper. This week, meet Kathy Collins, an amazing flash nonfiction writer from the west coast. (This is her second publication!) Where there is smoke there is fire. As a kid, I devoured …
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Philip Cioffari, author of If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues, writes of character and the way life and writing fuse to build a story. The main character, Joey “Hunt” Hunter, in my coming-of-age novel, If Anyone Asks, Say I Died from the Heartbreaking Blues (Livingston Press, 2020), came into being over …
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“One writes out of one thing only–one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.” ~ James Baldwin #AmWriting …