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PLAIGIARISM: using someone else’s material without their permission

July 19, 2010

This week I am participating in the open-to-the-public portions of a Writer’s Workshop being held at Brown University.   The theme is Writing Creative Non-Fiction.  That may seem like an oxymoron, if you understand that non-fiction is factual reporting.  Being creative might seem like a departure from the facts. However, in last night’s panel the writers [...]

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FICTION: the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, esp. in prose form.

February 3, 2010

My mind has been filled with fiction over the past week. I have been in the process of finishing a piece of fiction which has absorbed me. As I “put it to bed“, in the sense of putting the finishing touches on it, editing it yet once more, having spent days editing it over the [...]

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