▣ More about writing from workshop notes
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For my memoirs followers: Write about a special Thanksgiving. Who was there, was it good, was it bad. Why? What was happy, and what was sad about it.
▣ Expanding your Character
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In this writing I'm fresh back from a writing convention with a lot of new ideas. I hope they will help others as well.
▣ Material for Writing
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Everything gives you material for writing, even heart ache and heart break...even tradgedy. The poem below written long ago illustrates my point. The poem is probably better for the pain that inspired it.