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Tag Archives: creative nonfiction

Q&A with Fast Horse

August 5, 2020

I was honored to be featured in a blog Q&A with Adam Wahlberg of Fast Horse, a creative agency based …

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Read essays to write essays

January 26, 2020

“Read five poems for every one you write.” I read this piece of advice in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of …

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Softening the sting of artistic rejection

January 18, 2020

Rejection sucks. But the more you submit, and the more you’re rejected, it DOES become easier to shake off those …

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Some short, wonderful definitions of “essay”

October 10, 2019

Rebecca Solnit, in her introduction to this year’s edition of Best American Essays, offers some wonderful, succinct definitions of essay. …

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If you’re bored in Mankato, you’re doing something wrong

October 8, 2019

The past couple of weeks have been a cultural whirlwind in this rural Minnesota outpost we call Mankato. Lest you …

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“Show, Don’t Tell” — not necessarily

September 29, 2019

Navigate on over to this brilliant essay by Sonya Huber about the dangers of following the “show, don’t tell” advice …

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My favorite things, Aug. 4: True Story, women’s body image, and an essay a day

August 4, 2019

“Stumbling Into Joy,” by Kate Hopper, True Story Issue #29. Kate is a Minnesota treasure, author of Use Your Words: A …

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Slow progress is still progress

July 31, 2019

My mantra when I run is “forward momentum.” As long as I’m moving forward, I’m going to complete a run. …

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My favorite things: July 21 edition

July 21, 2019

I’m resurrecting my “favorite things” series that I had started a couple of years ago. There’s just too much great …

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Words out in the world (sort of)

June 22, 2019

Ah, progress. I reached a milestone this week when I finished a decent draft of the first two parts of …

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