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Monthly Archives: July 2004

Try Your Hand at Fiction

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on July 29, 2004 by Sheila BenderOctober 1, 2011

Summers in Port Townsend, WA, an arts organization called Centrum hosts a ten-day writers conference.  It is a sensational time, with nationally known poets and writers teaching participants who are serious about writing. Highlights include craft lectures and readings in a small auditorium across from tennis courts at the State Park entrance.  Almost twenty-five years … Continue reading →

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Review of Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer by Jenna Glatzer

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on July 22, 2004 by Sheila BenderOctober 1, 2011

In Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer: How to Win Top Writing Assignments (Nomad Press, 2004), writer Jenna Glatzer, who is Editor-in-Chief of absolutewrite.com, may insult some of us in her early chapters as she offers tips on blazing trails toward magazine article publishing, but by Chapter Six, her book is of real … Continue reading →

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The Argument and Persuasion Essay

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on July 15, 2004 by Sheila BenderOctober 1, 2011

What does it take to write persuasively and to move others to read and stay interested in your point-of-view?  What does it take to write to change their thinking and behavior? Eda La Shan, the early childhood specialist, once said something about dealing with children that I remember when writing argument-and-persuasion essays.  She said that … Continue reading →

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Put Summer on the Page

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on July 8, 2004 by Sheila BenderOctober 1, 2011

Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine has long been a favorite of mine. In one summer, the novel’s protagonist, twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding, encounters the richness of life.  The book opens with the announcement that he is allowed to sleep in his grandparents’ cupola one night a week during summer vacation, and upon waking, he performs a … Continue reading →

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Nancy Pearl’s Introduction to Book Lust

Sheila Bender's Writing It Real Posted on July 1, 2004 by Nancy PearlOctober 1, 2011

Copyright ©2003 by Nancy Pearl. Reprinted from Book Lust by Nancy Pearl with permission of Sasquatch Books. I love to read. And while I might not absolutely agree with the Anglo-American man of letters Logan Pearsall Smith, who said, “People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading,” I come awfully close to … Continue reading →

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