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Why Southern writers still captivate

The quest for storytelling remains strong in the South. “People grew up with it around them,” Mr. Prunty says. “It’s handed down; it’s a tradition you grow up in. It’s a complex part of the country with many things that have gone quite well and many that have caused thoughtful people to ask questions about themselves. When you start questioning your own backyard, you’re more apt to produce good literature.”

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Carmen Sisson July 5, 2015 July 2, 2016Recent Bylines Christian Science Monitor, Mississippi, Oxford, Southern writers, writing 0

Write a book in 30 days? What a novel idea.

The chicken and I are just two of the 79,813 participants in the sixth annual National Novel Writing Month – NaNoWriMo, for short – a self-directed, kamikaze approach to writing that embraces quantity over quality. The premise, dreamed up by San Francisco writer Chris Baty, is simple. Everyone says they’ll write a book one day. What if each person wrote a 50,000-word novel in 30 days, setting aside fears and making a mad dash for the impossible? It’s a beautifully insane scheme that appeals to insomniacs, masochists, and – apparently – the would-be writer in thousands of us.

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Carmen Sisson December 8, 2006 March 14, 2011Recent Bylines Baton Rouge, Christian Science Monitor, Louisiana, NaNoWriMo, offbeat, writing 1
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