Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack
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Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack
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I established Sheila Bender’s Writing It Real Substack as a community resource to facilitate those who write from personal experience in poetry, memoir, fiction, and nonfiction; join me for instructional articles on writing craft and the writing life.
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About Sheila Bender Writing It Real
Founder of WritingItReal.com, poet, essayist, memoirist and writing instruction author, I facilitate others writing from personal experience with articles and writing to help them grow rather than tear their writing apart via traditional critiquing.
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