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Writing Exercise: “Autumn in a Pittsburgh Suburb” (Sense of Place)

Posted on 2020/12/24 by Steve Capone

“… [H]e could start up his coal business again. He’d heard someone call it “black gold” – or maybe that was oil? The hill was chock full of it, anyhow. That was it. He would dig for coal.” Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise: Escalator – “Bear ISO Human Friend”

Posted on 2020/12/22 by Steve Capone

“Bensworth now closed the distance further on the new potential human friend, and he worried that he wouldn’t succeed in convincing this one of his amicable intentions.” Continue reading →

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Writing Exercise: Routine in the Second Person

Posted on 2020/12/21 by Steve Capone

At first approach to setting your SOP [Standard Operating Procedure], you thought about a few things in combination. Your first concern was for her, of course, and your second concern was for what would work best. “Best” here was a determination met by calculating your sub-optimal options given the constraints presented by (1) caring about another person’s comfort and (2) living as a human with limited cognitive abilities. Continue reading →

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