Esquire article about NIU shooter

Have you all read this article?  It raises some good questions about the limits of nonfiction.  The author certainly tests them, as he at times writes from the perspective of the shooter.  As far as I know, the shooter left no record of his actual thoughts right before the event, but the author claims to know them and [...]

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busy…

Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a while or commented on anyone’s work. Things have been pretty busy lately. Once I get caught up in my summer classes, I’ll have more time to write and read what everyone has written.

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reminder about the forum

Hi everyone. Just a reminder that I set up the Writers Forum for us…if you want to that is. I think you have all signed up. Here is the address again if you need it. If you would rather stick to the blog form instead, it’s cool with me, but I think that a web [...]

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detective poem

sorry it took so long – I actually abandoned what I was writing in favor of this, since the previous effort was seriously going nowhere. I tried to incorporate the elements that make det. fiction work for me into a poem (unreality, sense of forboding, etc.) but don’t know how well it works. Let me [...]

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