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Entering Your Story through the Smallest Detail--an Exercise with Buttons

Entering Your Story through the Smallest Detail--an Exercise with Buttons

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Mary Carroll Moore
Jul 20, 2009
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Entering Your Story through the Smallest Detail--an Exercise with Buttons
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I'm moving to a new home and office this month, so I'm cleaning out forgotten closets and cupboards and files. I found a large jar of buttons collected from friends who love to sew.

So when a writing colleague passed along this great exercise, I had to try it. It's by writer Roz Goddard, and it uses the tiniest of ojects--a button--to get deeper into a …

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