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A Picture’s Worth . . . How Many Words? # 2
Here’s the second photo in the series that began a couple of weeks ago: A Picture’s Worth . . . How Many Words? (Click on the link to see the first one.) The point? A prompt that’s the opposite of a … Continue reading
Worthy Words: A Peculiar Crossroads
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964), Mystery and Manners, part 2 (1969). How profound is this concept, and how true? Flannery O’Connor is one … Continue reading
A Picture’s Worth . . . How Many Words?
Something New at The Writerly Life: Photo Prompts For years I kept a folder of photographs (yes, real ones, printed out or clipped from magazines and newspapers) and used them as writing prompts for my students. I would set the … Continue reading
So Many Streets, So Many Connections
I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street. ― Virginia Woolf I just finished reading an essay, “Girlfriends,” in Anna Quindlen’s Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake. In her memoir Quindlen passes along Virginia … Continue reading
