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Isms: Views on life in rural America

After writing news articles for the past dozen years, it felt good to flex my creative writing skills and create the story on the front page of this week’s edition.

When I taught, I spent considerable time fine-tuning my creative writing craft alongside my students. My preferred genre: poetry, although I did begin a young adult novel during that time.

Some may think writing is writing. While the process remains the same, creative writing taps a different part of the brain, pulls from different experiences, in my opinion.

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