Tag: 5th grader
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Anne Lamott, Bit by Bit, and Microwaved Water…
Our middle child sat for the SAT, at the outset of this week, but not before giving the completed term papers to the respective teachers who had assigned them. Having read them several times when helping with the editing I learned much about the Gulf of Tonkin. In editing the second paper I learned how…
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Manuscripts, Editing, and the Chaos of Writing…
Last week was an absolute blur. It was crazy. My middle child, a junior in high school, was approaching taking her SAT for the first time. Two semester term papers, each between 12 and 15 pages lay in wait to be edited. As a writer I had to assist in my child in this process.…