My greatest misconception about being a writer when I was growing up was that writers needed to go out and have experiences. I was captivated by Joseph Conrad having been a sailor, Melville having been a whaler, Twain a miner and riverboat pilot, plus Hemingway, and London to name a few. I went out to …
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I recently sent an essay to a close friend, Chris, to read. He’s an army journalist now, but back in the day we were undergrads together on the school newspaper. We wrote and talked of writing and attended every open mic and I can neither confirm nor deny
I’m still giddy from my New York City trip. I met and reconnected with some amazing people. During the Saturday evening Jack Kent Cooke Symposium I was given the opportunity to talk about publishing and getting a book published with