NOTE: The following piece is written by Tyrone Shaw, a writing and literature professor at Northern Vermont University – Johnson.Back when the institution was known as Johnson State College, Tyrone was my mentor and played an instrumental role in launching careers in journalism and related fields for many students, myself included. After the unexpected gut …
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There’s an old adage writers use as a guiding light: “Murder your darlings.” It comes from the English writer, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, and is part of the advice he gives to writers as part of On the Art of Writing: a collection of lectures he gave at Cambridge: “If you here require a practical rule …
My freshman year of college, I had a wild writing professor. I didn’t realize then how incredible she was, and if I had a time machine, I’d go back and advice my younger self to pay more attention and appreciate what she was teaching and who she was. This was an Exposition & Analysis class, …
She left for work a little before 9 this morning. Working at the local supermarket. Running the cash register, answering customer questions, stocking shelves. Wholly unremarkable. Or it used to be, anyway. In the swift current of global change, clocking in at the grocery store isn’t what it used to be. But I’m getting ahead …
I’m on vacation this week, and one of my goals is sorting through various writing projects – all in various stages of completion – and refocusing my efforts as I head into summer and getting my first novel ready for an editor’s eyes.The piece I’m sharing here was written four years ago tomorrow, which is …
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