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Alexis Grant Gives Tips on Repatriation

Alexis Grant Gives Tips on RepatriationEight months remain on my Peruvian volunteer visa, yet it’s impossible to contemplate what awaits me upon repatriation to the US next March. Therefore I thought...

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Architecture in China: A Memoir Review

Architecture in China: A Memoir ReviewHaving worked in architecture in China, I relished the opportunity to review John van de Water’s You Can’t Change China, China Changes You. The memoir was released...

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NaNoWriMo 2012: Writing Season Commences

NaNoWriMo 2012: Writing Season CommencesMany writers require inspiration to write. Others are disciplined and write daily. Whatever type we are, we could benefit from goals, productivity, and...

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Learning from NaNoWriMo + WNFIN 2012

Learning from NaNoWriMo + WNFIN 2012Tomorrow is the closing day of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and WNFIN (Write Nonfiction in November), the opening month of the 2012-2013 writers...

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Kelly Lewis & Go! Girl Guides

Kelly Lewis & Go! Girl GuidesWelcome to NW, a column giving the shout out to new writers and people in publishing. Kelly Lewis found out the good way about the benefits of month-long writers...

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NW: Anthony D’Aries’s Language Excels

NW: Anthony D’Aries’s Language ExcelsWelcome to NW, a column giving the shout out to brilliant new writers and people in the publishing biz. Today’s featured author is Anthony D’Aries. D’Aries’s first...

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First Writers Conference Experience

First Writers Conference ExperienceSuch excitement coursed through my veins the week of 18 February that I practically wore The Joker’s grin. I was simultaneously repatriating after four years abroad...

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Penguin Putnam Author’s Memoir Publishing Tips

Penguin Putnam Author’s Memoir Publishing TipsIn this month’s New Writers installation, Tracy Slater offers memoir publishing tips. A fellow memoirist and nonfiction writer whom I met through...

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Tips on Storytelling in Memoir

Tips on Storytelling in MemoirWhen is the last time you told a story? Maybe you did it to someone in the cafe line, maybe to your mechanic when trying to explain your car’s dunk thunk dunk sound? Maybe...

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Steve Almond’s Essays: Not so Critical

Steve Almond’s Essays: Not so CriticalAfter reading Steve Almond’s essays on various sites in the past few months I wondered, when picking up Not That You Asked: Rants, Exploits and Obsessions, if...

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Writing a Memoir: Hong Kong Style

Writing a Memoir: Hong Kong StyleYoung American writer Shannon Young is writing a memoir, Hong Kong style. Her dream of being published and being in publishing should have taken her to New York. It...

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