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Raymond Carver Anecdote

Raymond Carver Anecdote

By Dick on September 19, 2011

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Surprise Ending By Dick Cummins Dick Cummins is a 1970 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and frequent contributor to  the We Wanted to Be Writers blog. In 1988 I was still struggling to get back on my financial feet from when my ed software company (Writing Software International, Inc. yet) went under.  One of [...]

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Blog Tour:  Stop 2

Blog Tour: Stop 2

By ww2bw on September 6, 2011

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Today we visit Scribophile for an interview and GIVEAWAY on the second stop of the Super Colossal Stupendous Superlative We Wanted to Be Writers Blog Tour. Daniel Tricarico interviews Eric about where he gets his ideas (especially for We Wanted to Be Writers), our “Books by the Bed” feature, the biggest disappointment of the Workshop, people who [...]

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