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Prayer for a Writing Group
So, at the school I work in, we’re supposed to pray. I’m not particularly good at it, in my opinion, so I thought I’d write one for the writer’s group. Then we can do prayer requests and end with this prayer. Let me know what you think. I have time to revise. “Prayer for a Writing Group” As we sit down to work today, may we be creative. If we have writer’s block and the page seems to go on forever, Let us remember that sometimes suffering is good for the soul. With that in mind, help us to be open to the stories that wish to be told Because sometimes writing…
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Notes Not Given to a Student
I’m thinking about using this in my Creative Fiction and Nonfiction Writing and Literature Class next year to open their course packets with. What do you think?
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Life is a Series of Fractures
Life is a series of fractures. I don’t just say this because I’ve been known by the somewhat offensive, but warmly meant, nickname of “Gimpy”—after I fell down two flights of cement stairs and busted myself up thoroughly on the first day of class—or because I’ve been known as “accident prone” since I was twelve, injuring myself so often that when I moved back from the East Coast I donated five pairs of crutches meant to be used in different types of weather. I say this, because, in my experience, it is the truth. Whether those fractures be emotional or physical, there will come a time when something will damage…