lawn, lawnmower, green-1812944.jpg

Get off my lawn – or, just because you *can* write something, doesn’t mean you should

Twenty years ago, I took my first online writing class. In the early weeks, students posted short stories and critiqued them as a getting-to-know-you exercise. My friend Renee was living in Boston but had grown up in Minnesota, and the other students gushed at how her prose shimmered like wheat fields in the summer sun….