My greatest artistic ability was revealed in high school. It wasn’t cooking, it wasn’t sewing, it was writing. I was…
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Melinda Brainard
My First Column Wasn’t My Greatest Work of Art
I wrote a weekly column for the local newspaper as a teenager. While my classmates waited tables and bagged groceries, I revealed personal details about my life,…
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Would YOU Remember Being Spit on by a Llama?
I reported last week that my teenage writing career was jumpstarted by interviewing my nearest neighbor, a local Langdon, ND…
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Back When I Had a Magnum Opus
I was a columnist for the local paper in high school. Sound impressive? It was a county paper. It was…
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True Confessions of a Novelist Wannabe
Since I was in braces I’ve wanted to publish a novel. This is the heading used when I was a teenage columnist…
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