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Essays About The Writing Life

The Art of Teaching Writing

July 27, 2005

Maybe all I wanted was significance. To be a Teacher’s Pet for the Day. I have never been, you see. And, I didn’t know how to be one. I was clearly not the smartest or most popular student in class, like Anna or Abigail. My parents didn’t visit the school or give Christmas and birthday [...]

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What Keeps You Going? : Writer’s Life Essays

June 9, 2005

A writer’s life is a frustrating life — so why do we keep at it?
Write a short personal essay about “What Keeps Me Going,” and send it over so the rest of us can relate.
A writer’s life is not only frustrating and full of rejection, it is lonely.
I have been writing for a little [...]

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