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Stuttering Dialogue Disease

Bugaboos When I served as an instructor for an International Correspondence Writing School, I carried the maximum load of students allowed by the school. For nine years, my office was full of student file folders.  I loved it. These were my … Continue reading

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Why Do We Write?

Yelling on Paper H. L. Mencken referred to a writer as an individual “in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His overpowering impulse is … Continue reading

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