Your Weekly Writing Exercise

Does Practice Make Perfect--Or Even Contribute Significantly to Your Writing Goals?

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Mary Carroll Moore
May 16, 2010
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It's gardening time in New England--despite the 20 degree weather we had last week that left my kale seedlings gasping--and I'm spending a lot of time out there. Soon my weekly teaching schedule will pick up again, leaving me little time to sit in the sun, so I'm getting my fingernails filthy now.

Gardening for me is a lot like writing. Both take tons o…

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