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My story gets workshopped tonight.

03.18. 2008 by Nate Melcher

At the end of January, I wrote a short story entitled “Good Taste” and submitted it for an MFA fiction workshop. Tonight, we’ll take a look at my piece to examine the choices I’ve made, their positives and pitfalls, and I’ll take extensive notes on the entire process. The workshop is small, eleven persons including … Read more

Categories classroom Tags good taste, short story, tone, writing workshop Leave a comment

Picking and choosing good writing tools.

08.01. 2007 by Nate Melcher

To further prove the interweb truly is a web, I found a blog post at LifeHack.com linking to blog posts by Roy Peter Clark about his 50 Learning Tools for Writing and now the links appear here. The tools are each titled in a way so a studious writer comprehends what Clark is getting at … Read more

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