Posts tagged creativity
old words

Tracy and I are cleaning out our basement.

I was going through a box and found a whole bunch of stuff from graduate school - my course evaluations, class reading lists, student and faculty rosters, and stacks of my own writing.

Holding this heavy pile of paper in my hands, I truly understood how much time had passed. They were like historical documents.

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shepherd your work

It was the first day of writing class.

We were going around the table to introduce ourselves.

“I want to give you two of my stories,” she said. “I want you to tell me if they’re any good or not. If I’ve got no shot at getting published, I don’t want to waste my time with the class.”

She didn’t like my answer.

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