Thursday, September 28, 2017

Writing for Fun

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But Not Profit

“Show me a writer who was in it purely for the fun, and I’ll show you twenty pages of an unfinished manuscript.” 

—Jennifer Niesslein, writer, “The Joy of Writing,”’ Creative Nonfiction #62, 2015.








 
Editorial Comment: If you have enough fun, happy writer, you can make a nice doorstop.




PeezPix by Ted Pease

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