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There I was...
Post-race running stories fill me up. In the army we call them there-I-was..., but they're only stories if you tell them... Tell your story!
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Jeff Calvert
Revisiting Barkley
A look back at my 2016 Barkley Marathons photography assignment, and what I wrote about it
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Jeff Calvert
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Read, Write, Run, Repeat
A practical cycle of activity, and the how-to core of a philosophy I try to live by (pay attention, tell about it, keep moving forward)
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Jeff Calvert
Look at That
Steps in my process: discovery, writing to understand, writing to share (with an example: measuring, superlatives, and exceptionalism)
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Jeff Calvert
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Reading: everything, all the time
Sustenance for the creative center of a writer's life
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Jeff Calvert
Forcing the groove
Disruption — sometimes you have to force the issue and go all night
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Jeff Calvert
Bracing, Forging, Flowing
Bracing for caterpillars, and trying to write (sometimes it flows, sometimes I'm a smithy)
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Jeff Calvert
Origin Stories
About The Rush of it All — here's to origin stories, long gestations, beating the censor, memories, and forward motion
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Jeff Calvert
Introducing "Writing the Rush"
A newsletter companion to The Rush of it All
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Jeff Calvert
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