Project 55: My Health & Fitness Goals
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Let me be honest: I am in the worst shape of my life, not at, but close. This has been a two-plus-decade issue...
Shawn Presley
Oct 712 min
The Everlasting Beat: Gen Xstacy and Its Enduring Relationship with Techno
In the gritty urban landscape of Detroit during the early 1980s, a musical revolution quietly brewed, poised to ignite the passions of...
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Shawn Presley
Oct 66 min
"We Are Not Heroes" with Critical Introduction: A Meaningful Revision
"11/11" always bothered me because I didn't feel I captured how I felt about my growth as a Veteran. So, I broke it, and it came out better
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Shawn Presley
Oct 63 min
"11/11": An Essay about Growing as a Veteran
Being a Veteran was a little bit of a different journey. I look back and realize how immature and entitled I felt. I outgrew that bullshit.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 64 min
"Halloween": A Flash Essay with Caramel Apples
This time, we could go up to 1000 words. It was also due October 30th, so what better time than to write about my favorite holiday?
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Shawn Presley
Oct 62 min
"Neighborhood Creeks": My First Flash Essay
A revised version of this essay is the first piece I submitted to a publisher looking for flash nonfiction. It was rejected.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 67 min
Flash Nonfiction Experimentals
A "flash essay" is a very short, concise essay that focuses on a single, impactful moment or idea..it started with experimentals.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 611 min
"The Stanger in a Changed Land": A Third-Person Memoir
For my final memoir essay, I debated point-of-view changes. I considered using the second person; however, I decided on the third person.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 67 min
"I Like the Way You Move": An Epistolary Memoir
When I was ready to write my second memoir, I decided to experiment again. I went the route of the epistolary...
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Shawn Presley
Oct 613 min
"When God Called My Marker": My First Memoir
This first memoir, "When God Called My Marker," was written in less than a week since I volunteered to be one of the first three...
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Shawn Presley
Oct 615 min
"A Trail of Quarters": Post-Workshop Revised story
In the case of this story, the story wasn't revised as drastically as I have with others, but I still made some dramatic changes overall.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 611 min
"A Trail of Quarters": A Pre-Workshop Story
This story is adapted from the Grimm’s fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel.” This adaption is set in the 2010s in Anywhere, USA..
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Shawn Presley
Oct 519 min
"The Assassination of Helen Katsoros": A Post-Workshop Story
The assignment post-workshop was to take the critiques and make substantial changes to the story...I accepted that challenge.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 518 min
"A Cost for Anything Gained": A Pre-Workshop Story
The assignment was to write a story where the protagonist gained something but came at a cost. This was my pre-workshop story.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 56 min
Scene Clusters from Intermediate Fiction
In this class, we wrote a short, mid, and long scene within specified word counts. These are raw writing pieces, far from polished products.
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Shawn Presley
Oct 57 min
Project 55: Year 1, Day 1
Today is October 5, 2024—my 53rd birthday. It feels different from the others despite not being a milestone birthday. There's a shift in...
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