2019 WRITING CHALLENGE

Writing What You Know…In Whatever Form That Takes

Anne Spollen
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readSep 20, 2019

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Photo by Mark Duffel on Unsplash

“You must always, but always write what you know,” my first creative writing professor reminded us. “It’s the one rule that guarantees authenticity and must never be broken. Never.”

Dr. G could not be wrong about this. Not possible. He had been published many times over AND he smoked a pipe that he took out of his…

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Writer/teacher. Enslaved by my cats. I haunt NYC, the Hudson Valley, and the Jersey shore. I also write.