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Creative writing doesn’t fit that paradigm at all. Like any art form or taught skill – learning how to dance, make music, mold clay, knit, crochet, embroider, carve – writing is best done via the apprenticeship model where you acquire skills from others who have more experience than you.

The first time I saw a cocoa orchard my husband and I were living on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Miles from the city […]

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