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First Ways

On The Terror of Writing Your First Book

By Ooligan Press

April 2, 2013 by OoliganPress 1 Comment

by Rebecca Lerner As a journalist, I’d written more 1,000-word news articles and blog posts than I could count, but this manuscript was supposed to be 70,000 words. And not 700 stand-alone articles that follow an inverted pyramid style of anecdotal lede, then nut graph, and so on. This had to be literature—a story with a […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: Dandelion Hunter, first book, First Ways, food foraging, Globe Pequot Press, MFA, Portland, Powell's, Rebecca Lerner, urban foraging, writer's block, writing, Writing process, www.firstways.com

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