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Tragedy, Hope, and a Medical Mystery: 'The Covenant of Water'

Medicine and the Machine

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How to Write a Song

Bob Greene says that in order to write you need to read deeply and broadly. He writes about the process of taking words on a page and then making them into a mental movie in your head. The writer provides the words, the reader provides their imagination and somewhere in middle space this mental movie begins to take shape he says.

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