bobwelch23
Sep 12, 20164 min read
What I learned while teaching inmates to write
SALEM — An hour before I’m to present a three-hour writers workshop at the maximum security facility of the Oregon State Penitentiary,...
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bobwelch23
Mar 5, 20143 min read
Entertaining angels
I’ve been marketing books of mine now for more than 20 years but only recently realized a big mistake I was making: Thinking it was only...
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bobwelch23
Feb 12, 20143 min read
Living a Yahtzee life
They say if you want to make money in the writing business you find a niche and go to that place again and again. In other words, if the...
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bobwelch23
Feb 12, 20143 min read
Mother of Rain outstanding
Mother of Rain, about hardscrabble life in the hills of Tennessee in the 1930s and ’40s, is the most intriguing read I’ve experienced in...
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bobwelch23
Jan 30, 20133 min read
Why I don’t believe in writer’s block
It’s one of the most oft-asked questions I get as a writer and teacher: “What can I do about writer’s block?” “Write,” I say. (I was...
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