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This Is What Nora Ephron Taught Me

Sometimes it takes a minute for a documentary to hit me. This was the case with Everything is Copy, Jacob Bernstein’s tribute to his late mother Nora Ephron. I had watched it weeks ago and it burned slowly in my subconscious. Maybe it had something to do with me wanting to hear more from the folks

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First Drafts: The Ugly Side of the Story

Creative, Writing / Taiia

My first drafts are ugly. They’re usually scribbled in a cheap, spiral notebook or on Post-Its. Once, I wrote an entire short story on a roll of paper towel because the dialogue just poured out of me. Well, that and I was too lazy to get my cheap, spiral notebook. (Side note: I reserve expensive,

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