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Writing

Day 5: Other days

December 5, 2008

Some days, writing comes easily. Your words dance across the page or screen, twirling fully formed thoughts into elegant sentences. Narratives arc gracefully, floating in a warm, clear light. Other days — days when you have stories to tell, and ideas to explore — the words do not come. Or those that do, trip over [...]

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Digging

August 12, 2005

I’ve been trying for several months to write about my experience of Paul’s first battle with cancer: how it felt to be twenty-one and madly in love with a man who appeared to be dying; how my family history and psychological makeup affected my reaction to his illness; how I failed to find the psychological [...]

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Delivery

May 31, 2005

Tonight was the reading for the students in the memoir writing classes that I just finished at the UW Extension Writers Program. For the reading, I reworked a piece that I wrote early in the year. Before taking this class, I had trouble writing multiple drafts. My teacher, Laura Kalpakian, and my classmates have, through [...]

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The Reading

May 4, 2005

If you were to scroll down to near the bottom of the May author events page at the University of Washington Bookstore’s web site, you’d see this: Tuesday ? May 31 ? 7pmLaura Kalpakian’s Memoir Class ReadingUniversity District StoreTuesday is the first night of Laura Kalpakian’s UW Extension Memoir class student readings. Come see what [...]

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More on where I’m from

March 1, 2005

I did not write the “Where I’m From” below, but there is much there with which I am intimately familiar. The woman who wrote this has known me her entire life; I have known her for all but 12 1/2 months of mine. She is as much a part of where I’m from as are [...]

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I am from…

February 23, 2005

A couple of days ago, Melinama at Pratie Place wrote about a lovely poetry exercise based on George Ella Lyon’s poem Where I’m From. The exercise was originally from this post at Fragments from Floyd; it includes directions for the exercise, as well as a template of sorts to aid the process. Here are my [...]

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Leaping

January 19, 2005

A couple of weeks ago, I started the second quarter of the memoir writing classes that I’m taking at the UW Extension Writers Program. At the beginning of last quarter, I wrote about the class once or twice. Since I expect to be working harder at producing material for the class this quarter, I’ll probably [...]

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Writing for work

November 16, 2004

As I mentioned, I have a big deadline coming up at work this Thursday. We are submitting drawings for a project to the building department for a building permit. This means that we have to prove that the project, as designed, complies with all of the applicable building codes. I’ve spent most of the past [...]

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