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Write Your Heart Out explores how to turn personal experiences, ideas and emotions into stories, essays, poems and memoirs. In a clear, insightful voice, Rebecca McClanahan teaches readers how to mine and shape personal material, urging them to write deeply, honestly and imaginatively about... read more

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As I write these words, a jackhammer is breaking open the sidewalk outside my apartment, I am groggy from nightmares of tunnels and root canals, the freezer in my ancient refrigerator is exhaling yet another cloud of ice, my e-mail is backing up, the laundry is piling up, and the light on my answering machine is blinking the number five.

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  1. Rebecca McClanahan (Author)

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