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Writing unfaithfully

March 28, 2014 By Lee Kofman 10 Comments

To my mind, the craft of writing resides not in formulaic rules (e.g. ‘don’t use any adverbs’ or ‘no more than one adjective per noun’), but in that elusive process when our innermost, vaguest dreaming eventually shapes itself into a …

Filed Under: The Writer Laid Bare Tagged With: life writing, writing process

A Guest Blog Post by Susan Blumberg-Kason, American memoirist, on learning not to hold back in writing.

March 12, 2014 By Lee Kofman 5 Comments

Six years ago I started writing a memoir about my marriage to a man from central China and how I thought I would thrive in this cross-cultural marriage. But I soon realized that my years of studying China and Mandarin …

Filed Under: The Writer Laid Bare Tagged With: life writing, memoir, publishing, writing process

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