Your Weekly Writing Exercise

Three Steps to Crafting a Book: Content, Structure, Language

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Mary Carroll Moore
Apr 24, 2010
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It's a rainy Saturday and I'm teaching at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Outside, trees are in full leaf, lilacs are blooming, signs of spring are everywhere, unheard of in Minnesota in late April. But because of the rain, my class of 25 writers is content to be indoors.

They've been working on their books all morning. Now I've sent them off to…

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