'We're shy and introspective people, wary of strangers and skittish about body contact, and the State Fair is where you ... (Pioneer Press)

1. You may be having trouble because you are trying to get your opening perfect before moving on. You've deleted your first sentences a hundred times because they don't sound just right. If this is your problem, then you need to forget about it and go on with your story. You can come back to your opening later. Once you have a first rough draft of the story written out, you'll then have a foundation to build on. Then it may be easier to polish up those beginning sentences.

'We're shy and introspective people, wary of strangers and skittish about body contact, and the State Fair is where you ... (Pioneer Press)

Kathryn Strand Koutsky and her daughter, Linda Koutsky, know a lot about research after collaborating on their popular books "Minnesota Eats Out" and "Minnesota Vacation Days." They assumed that writing about the Minnesota State Fair would be a breeze because the archives are all in one place.

Achievements (River Valley Business Report)

Catherine Kolkmeier (see photo) has been named to direct the La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium.

California College of the Arts at 100: Its writing program sizzles (San Francisco Chronicle)

If you are driving around the South of Market neighborhoods of San Francisco or the Rockridge section of Oakland, it's hard to miss the banners announcing the Centennial of California College of the Arts. From its beginnings in 1907 with three classrooms, 43...

UW: Course cuts will hurt quality (Wisconsin State Journal)

If a language class about an obscure African dialect spoken by a dwindling number of people worldwide attracts only a handful of students at UW-Madison, should the university continue to offer it? That type of question comes up more often these days, as universities try to juggle the notion of encouraging wide-ranging intellectual curiosity with the practical needs of running a university on a ...

CAREER CALENDAR (Pioneer Press)

Mock Interviews. Practice common interview questions and receive feedback. Bring a resume and dress in interview attire. 9 a.m.-noon Monday, Minnesota WorkForce Center-Dakota County-Western Area, Southcross Commons Center IV, 2900 W. County Road 42, Suite 140, Burnsville. Register, 651-895-7600. TTY: 952-895-7661.

Dover Chamber names new membership director, supports Butterfield repairs (It's Dover Community News)

The Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce recently welcomed Marie Aichele as their new membership director. A graduate of UNH who left a career as a medical lab tech in 1999 to pursue a career in business, Aichele comes to the Chamber with an extensive...

Variety the Spice in Autumn Arts Classes (The Morning News)

There are no classes for children on the Walton Arts Center's fall calendar. But Terri Trotter, WAC vice president for external affairs, says the Fayetteville arts center will continue to touch the lives of thousands of students every year.

Out and About: Aug. 17-23 (The Morning News)

The Thing to Do WCHS Ice Cream Social Saturday's 37th annual Washington County Historical Society Ice Cream Social begins at 4 p.m. and includes tours of Headquarters House; live music; costumed graduates of the Summer Heritage School and other living history performers; the annual Attic Treasures Sale and silent auction; and, of course, Hiland Dairy ice cream and homemade cake.

Cornell's Creative Writing Program ranked among the nation's best (Cornell News Service)

Cornell's Creative Writing Program has been named one of the nation's top 10. In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs.

National Catholic Reporter (National Catholic Reporter)

Hundreds of jobs -- professional, administrative, clerical, ministerial and even some secular -- are filled through NCR Classifieds each year.

'We're shy and introspective people, wary of strangers and skittish about body contact, and the State Fair is where you ... (Pioneer Press)

Students of writing must write about other people, learn to create characters that live within the boundaries of the fictional world created by the writer. This is the very essence of the craft, without which you cannot progress.

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'We're shy and introspective people, wary of strangers and skittish about body contact, and the State Fair is where you ... (Pioneer Press)