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Premium Content The Meaning of Writing

by Jenny Chung - September 20, 2006

What does prose mean to you?

I wonder sometimes if any author's story is quite like mine. I'm not talking about the stories they write with their pens, or tap out on typewriters or keyboards. I'm talking about the stories they craft with their very lives, their every breath, their every movement.

When some people talk about writing, they give the impression (to me, at least…

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