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DISCOVERING THAT ONE GREAT IDEA

September 5, 2015

Seven Concepts Writers Can Learn From Gold Prospectors In August I spent a weekend with cousins from Ohio who were visiting the wilds of Idaho near where I live.  We took an afternoon to pan for gold above the resort town of Donnelly, which is part of the Boise National Forest. No, we didn’t stop at a tourist trap, where they salt the trough with pyrite and you get to take home a little pouch of “Fool’s Gold.” I’m talking the real deal.  One of my cousins, an astute fifteen year-old, knows ... VIEW POST

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