“Of course writing can be taught. This is not to say that you can teach anyone to be Faulkner. But you can’t teach anyone to be Thelonius Monk, and no one questions the value of piano lessons. You can’t teach anyone to be Andre Aggasi, yet no one questions (at least from a tennis-playing perspective) [...]
Stories in Writing:
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Writers workshop
From Holt Uncensored: Ten Mistakes Writers Don’t See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do)
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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July briefs: censorship, fires, new fiction and a b-day
No room for Freedom in Perry, Indiana. A veteran high school teacher in Perry, Indiana has been suspended without pay for teaching The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them. The book by Long Beach, California teacher/author Erin Gruwell and her students [...]
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