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This came across my desk today. It’s a clip from the Playing for Change: Peace Through Music documentary project where musicians from around the world are united in the spirit of peace. Check it out, comment, and share it with others.

We kicked off a unit on microfiction in my creative writing class the other day. This segment of the course will be focused heavily on the idea of revision–sometimes arbitrary, always gut-wrenching. The process we’re following is one I’ve been developing with a colleague of mine based on the film The Five Obstructions. The very [...]

My fiction writing students and I often argue around the matter of what makes for a story. The debate usually begins when I encounter either one of two stances on the issue: 1) sometimes nothing happens in a story, there is no particular conflict, and the characters never change, or 2) everyday life is boring, [...]