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The Writing Room: And My (Serious) Case of the Human Condition

Driving home the other day from just one of countless visits to my mom at the hospital, I had to ask myself , why aren’t I writing about her?

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A Case of the Human Condition: The Trouble With Daffodils

The trouble with daffodils is they have no subtext. They are all cheer and sparkle and optimism. They are avatars of perky. They get on my nerves.

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The Writing Room: My Idea of a Good Time — A Week in the Mountains with a Bunch of Other Writers

I’ve attended the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley summer conference three different times and loved every moment. It’s a great chance to meet writers, editors, agents — and work on your writing.

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The Writing Room: George Leonard and the Tao of Writing

George Leonard, one of the fathers of the human potential movement, and I both worked at Look magazine during the 1960s. We knew each other — that is to say, we were aware of each other — at Look, I more aware of George than he of me. I was a very young editorial secretary and not a very good one. He was a Look writer and a star.

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The Writing Room: Carol Edgarian’s Letter to a Young Writer

Whether you’re a brand-new writer or writer of many years, be sure to check out Carol Edgarian’s letter to a young college graduate who wants to write but doesn’t know where to start.

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