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The Golden Age of Print Media: My Takeaways From the Willa Cather Spring Conference

Last week, I virtually attended the annual National Willa Cather Center conference. Last year, the conference went all online because of pandemic. Presenters recorded their…

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Read All About It: How Newspaper Archives Led Me To New Stories

One of my pandemic inspired hobbies involves newspaper archives. It started as a means to continue family genealogy research but wound up becoming a way…

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Where Do Writers Find Inspiration?: The Importance of Observation in Creative Thinking

  There’s an idyllic notion that creative inspiration comes from the universe sending lightning bolts of thought into your brain. While this does happen (usually…

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Location, Location, Location – Part 2

 In Part 2 of my series about at how writers utilize personal experiences to develop setting in their stories, I looked to one of the…

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