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Warm-up exercise: Scar
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Freewrite for 10 minutes about a scar or scars: your own or someone else’s.
—MS
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Sentences: Long is beautiful
Warm-up exercise: Television weeping
Living vs. being based
Dialogue: Keep it simple
Sentences: Simple, fragment, run-on
Sentences: A sentence is a thought, not a warehouse
Narrative: Six principles and some examples
Beware of getting involved
The sense of sight
Function shift
Find yourself, but don’t say so
Sentence fragments
Trump and trumpery
Gerunds and participles: Avoid ING words
Lie, lay, laid, lain
"And" or "but" at the start of a sentence
Phrases and clauses
Morale exercise: Real writers
Acronyms and otherwise
How does narrative die?
Convince/persuade and other fake synonyms
The handy dandy 5-W sentence
Going further with farther
Interview with Mary Schendlinger
Warm-up exercise: Lunch
Narrative exercise: Birthday
Warm-up exercise: Eyes shut
Warm-up exercise: Scar
Trim those articles and prepositions
The order of things
