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    Hey, writers…
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Feb 6, 2014
    • 1 min

    Hey, writers…

    This is a quick post. A sort of poll question, if you will… What service or resource have you tried to find to help you with your...
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    I Give Up.
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Feb 5, 2014
    • 3 min

    I Give Up.

    “I thought you’d already given up blogging,” some of you might say. Granted, it’s been a while since I’ve been actively engaged in...
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    Change Your Actions, Change Your Results
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jun 21, 2013
    • 2 min

    Change Your Actions, Change Your Results

    As I mentioned early in the week, I hit a creative wall in the second quarter of 2013. Things weren’t happening, for me, and as the...
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    Community Is Important for Writers
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • May 2, 2013
    • 3 min

    Community Is Important for Writers

    To be honest, I’ve been pretty down for the last week or so. As I’ve shared before, I have been teaching Legacy Writing classes via the...
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    On Edge or On The Edge?
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Apr 10, 2013
    • 2 min

    On Edge or On The Edge?

    Over the last few days, I’ve felt a little nervous. Sometimes I get this way, when I have this lingering feeling that something is about...
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    David Jauss and Knowing Too Much
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Mar 7, 2013
    • 3 min

    David Jauss and Knowing Too Much

    Sometimes I come across an article about writing that I know I’m going to return to again and again. David Jauss writes just such an...
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    Carver’s Ending of Cathedral: “It’s Really Something”
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jan 25, 2013
    • 3 min

    Carver’s Ending of Cathedral: “It’s Really Something”

    One of the things that I like best about asking fellow writers to write for my blog during these “A Week With…” posts is the variety of...
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    Carver’s Cathedral: Different Interpretations at Different Stages of Life
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jan 24, 2013
    • 3 min

    Carver’s Cathedral: Different Interpretations at Different Stages of Life

    Heidi Moore writes wonderfully re-imagined modern stories based on Greek mythology, among other things. She is also a medical doctor and...
    2 views0 comments
    Naming the Voice: Prejudice and Change in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jan 23, 2013
    • 4 min

    Naming the Voice: Prejudice and Change in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”

    Clifford Garstang wrote two of the best books I read last year (links at the end of this post) and I am happy to host his contribution to...
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    A Week With Raymond Carver’s Cathedral
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jan 21, 2013
    • 2 min

    A Week With Raymond Carver’s Cathedral

    Today marks the start of my third installment of the “A Week With…” series where I invite some of my favorite friends and writers to...
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    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Jan 16, 2013
    • 4 min

    Little Edits: A Peek Into Process

    I’ve blogged before about my process. It is something that a lot of people find interesting. I know I enjoy discussing process and...
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    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 21, 2012
    • 2 min

    A Week With Dorothy Parker: You Were Perfectly Fine

    I hope you enjoyed the essays I posted this week focused on Dorothy Parker’s classic story, You Were Perfectly Fine. Based on the blog...
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    A week with Dorothy Parker: Subtlety of Structure
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 20, 2012
    • 3 min

    A week with Dorothy Parker: Subtlety of Structure

    [su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...
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    A week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Wit, Wisecracking, & Calisthenics with words.
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 19, 2012
    • 3 min

    A week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Wit, Wisecracking, & Calisthenics with words.

    Ginger Pinholster is a writer and fellow graduate of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. You can connect with her on...
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    A Week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Dramatic Irony vs. Antithetical Discourse
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 18, 2012
    • 3 min

    A Week with You Were Perfectly Fine: Dramatic Irony vs. Antithetical Discourse

    Belinda Nicoll is the author of the memoir, Out of Sync, as well as a writing and life coach. (You can read an earlier interview I did...
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    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 17, 2012
    • 1 min

    In case you missed it: A Good Man is Hard to Find

    Earlier today I kicked off my December guest blog blizzard which will focus on Dorothy Parker’s short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. In...
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    Spending a week with a story: You Were Perfectly Fine
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Dec 17, 2012
    • 4 min

    Spending a week with a story: You Were Perfectly Fine

    In February of 2010, I posted a brief summary and discussion of Dorothy Parker’s classic short story, You Were Perfectly Fine. When I...
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    A Good Man…We’re All Misfits.
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Nov 28, 2012
    • 6 min

    A Good Man…We’re All Misfits.

    This is the (belated) final installment of the series of guest contributions focused on Flannery O’Connor’s story, A Good Man is Hard to...
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    A Good Man…Beyond the Names We Know
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Nov 21, 2012
    • 3 min

    A Good Man…Beyond the Names We Know

    Naming our characters (or, sometimes, not naming our characters) is a big piece of the literary puzzle for many writers. This is the...
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    A Good Man…Good vs. Evil
    Eric Sheridan Wyatt
    • Nov 20, 2012
    • 4 min

    A Good Man…Good vs. Evil

    I met Kelly Fordon while I was pursuing my MFA. She was working on a novel told from the point of view of a U.S. Congressman’s young...
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