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Priscilla Long is author of Minding the Muse: A Handbook for Painters, Composers, Writers, and Other Creators (Coffeetown Press), a book of essays titled Fire and Stone: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (University of Georgia Press), and Crossing Over: Poems (University of New Mexico Press). She is also author of The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life (Wallingford Press). Priscilla is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, essays, creative nonfictions, fictions, science, and history. Her awards include a National Magazine Award. Her rigorous and extremely popular classes are always full for the good reason that her writers routinely become more skilled and get more published. Her scholarl ...more

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The Writer's Portable Mento...

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Minding the Muse

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Terminal Weird
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“All really good writers use fragments.”
Priscilla Long, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life

“In 2018, Katherine Beiers, age 85, completed the Boston marathon.55 In 2019 another old competitor to finish the Boston marathon, Larry Cole, was also age 85. In 2018, Canadian Betty Jean McHugh, age 90, continued to run marathons. She began running in her 50s. She considers the age 90 to be “just a number.”56 Not to forget Spokane-based Sister Madonna Buder (b. 1930), aka “the Iron Nun,” who by her late 80s had competed in 400 triathlons, forty-five of them Ironmans (you swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and run 26.2-miles).57 Now that she is in her 90s though, she’s had to slow down. On her daily routine she swims a half-mile, rides a bike for twenty miles, and goes for a three-mile run.58”
Priscilla Long, Dancing with the Muse in Old Age

“We work out our own thoughts in our own words, not to please, not to impress, but to discover what it is that we have to say.”
Priscilla Long, The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writing Life

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