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(Excerpted from “A Placed Called WriterL: Where the Conversation Was Always About Literary Journalism” copyright 2022 Jon Franklin, Lynn Franklin and Stuart Warner) Photo of Michael Green by Eustacio Humphrey/The Plain Dealer 2002 Before Christmas of 2002, WriterL member Deborah Robson wrote an excellent critique of the writing techniques Connie Schultz used to develop the…
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I have used this excerpt from Jon Franklin’s book “The Wolf in the Parlor” (copyright 2009 Jon Franklin.) as an example of why the kind of writing we talked about on WriterL is important. Jon inherited a dog, a standard-bred poodle named Charlie, with his marriage to Lynn. At the time, they were living in…
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By Stuart Warner (@copyright 2022 Jon Franklin, Lynn Franklin and Stuart Warner) Back before the turn of the century, before Facebook, Twitter and Zoom, nonfiction writers from around the country could gather around their computers on email message boards to discuss their craft, often referred to as Literary Journalism. One of these message boards was…
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