Category: The Write Thing
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One of the Hell Hawks Still Stands
Bob Russell is a distinguished man, the Florida Fly Boy, one of the heroic Hell Hawks. He is the subject of a short memoire I am writing; it will highlight his interesting life, including his WWII fighter pilot experience. This story mostly comes directly from Bob who is now 97. Family and friends add to…
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Get Fully Woke to Shakespeare
Shakespeare is everywhere. Given all his writing, the presentations and performances, all the studies and acknowledgements, the lives he touches, he is omnipresent. Yet he remains hard to pinpoint, an iconic enigma, unless you give him due diligence (a phrase he penned). And it’s hard as well to know details of the man’s life –…
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Thoughts on What Makes a Good Writing Group
I’ve been a writer for a long time, but only in recent years have I participated in a writing group. There’s lots of opinion on what makes a good writing group, and here’s mine. I’m lucky in that I have only been in two writing groups, and the second was an out-growth of the first.…
