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Revision Workshop
Novel Metamorphosis by Darcy Pattison Beyond the Margins, a YA writing group consisting of Vermont College MFA alums, gathered this past weekend in Atherton, California at the lovely home of Helen Pyne...
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On Becoming Revisionary
Last week, I helped a woman who is moving from a very large house (probably over 3000 square feet) to a three-bedroom apartment. We sorted the contents of her garage into piles of garbage, piles of...
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Remodel
The floor was soft for a long time before we decided to rip it up and replace it. Water had been leaking next to the bathtub, but we weren’t sure the extent of the damage until we got the...
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Stuff We Keep
“Stuff we keep” doesn’t sound half so poetic as “the things they carried,” nor should it. It’s just stuff, right? But I’m bad at throwing things away. Among the stuff I’m still sorting through from my...
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Expand. Contract.
Heat causes expansion. Cold, contraction. Fire behind a story gives it flesh. We find our spark. The story burns. The pages fill. And once the story’s full, it’s time for cold. Sharp. Reflection....
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