A short story is often treated like a stepping stone that grad students and lesser writers use to build their skills. Tell someone you wrote a book and you get congratulations; tell them you wrote a collection of short stories and they’ll ask you how your book is coming along. For most people, short stories
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TLC Book Tours: Because You Have To by Joan Frank
I was about two pages into Because You Have To: A Writing Life by Joan Frank when the following three sentences gave me pause- A teaching mentor during a MFA program once wrote to me, in calm response to my own bewildered longing for time: “One has plenty of opportunities during the day to write.”
TLC Book Tour: A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary
I was super excited when TLC Book Tours contacted me again about doing another book review, this time fiction! Contemporary fiction! Yay! I was given A Simple Thing by Kathleen McCleary. I’d rehash the plot, but since the publisher paid someone a lot of money to do that for them, I’ll let them do their
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