Monthly Archives: November 2017

November 18, 2017 by Margaret_M | No Comments

The Good Mentor Margaret McCaffrey – June 28 2017It’s said that writing can’t be taught. But why not? Tobias Wolff taught George Saunders at Syracuse University, and look where that got George. All the way to the Man Booker Prize for […]

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November 3, 2017 by Margaret_M | One Comment

Where do you write?Margaret McCaffrey – May 4 2017‘Keep the drama on the page,’ says Julia Cameron, author of The Artists Way. She means make your work dramatic, not your life.In drafts of my writing I see I have a series of themes […]

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