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Category: The Writer’s Life
Fueling the Writing Passion Day 1: Open & Resourceful
Day 1: Open & Resourceful 30-Day Writing Challenge Fifteen days into the new year seems like the perfect time to start something. The awkward newness and over ambitiousness of fresh beginnings have given way to the cold …
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7 Wheels & a Podcast: OSU-Cascades’ Wheels Cohort Talk Writing & Read Their Work-Ep.35
Today we have an epic, action-packed episode for you, so get ready to geek out on reading and writing. The Wheels join us to explore their work, motivations, writer’s lives, and craft and style choices. There are …
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Why I Wrote The Scribbled Victims
By Robert Tomoguchi A friend recently suggested I share with people why I wrote The Scribbled Victims. To those who read it, hopefully it is an entertaining and redeeming story that will be enjoyed regardless of my reasons. …
Meet Oregon State University-Cascades’ MFA Program
With all this upcoming activity involving members and faculty of OSU-Cascades’ MFA program, we thought it might be fun to introduce the program and why we at Read.Write.Repeat love the program. First, a little more about MFAs …
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The Writing Life
Sophocles is our April guest on Read.Write.Repeat! He is a super talented graphic novelist and all around cool human. You don’t want to miss what he has to say during the episode, which will air Sunday, April …
Invisible Power: An Experiment with Erasure Poetry
I sat amid a tumult of paper, much of it in crumpled little wads. Each sheet bore evidence of frustration and indecision—little squiggles, larger, more permanent swaths of black sharpie, words circled, crossed out, and circled again. …
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The Writing Life
By Guest Author Sophocles Sapounas What is the writing life? What does it mean to be a writer? The more I think about it, the less I seem to understand. I believe that it’s tied to a …
How Life Changes as a Published Author
A guest post by Abigail Shepherd A friend asked me the other day if I thought people would be intimidated by the fact that I’m a published author. I had to admit that I hadn’t thought …
Find Your “Why”
Hi there. My name is Mark. I’m an author. And I really do not know what I’m doing. I am, however, quite certain of why I’m doing it. And for my fellow writers reading this, I suggest …
Tibetan Lemonade 