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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » Discovery
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. January 29th, 2013. I found your writing. You call yourself a writer but where are your words? Why are they hidden? Writer is a big word in my book. You don’t just throw that around lightly. When I was in college, learning about writing by real writers, they said you aren’t a writer until someone pays you for your words. That one stuck with me over the years. I admit it: I’m worried about this writer business. What if you’re better? What if you are.
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Shirley A. McShane » Portfolio
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. I write news and feature articles, blog posts and promotional copy. Recent clients include Detroit Media Partnership,. Affordable Care Act package for Detroit Media Partnership. Cornerstone Schools, 2008-09 Annual Report. Material from freelance newspaper writing for. Big Birds, Big Business. Motherhood Comes in Many Forms. Are You My Friendster? Big Birds, Big Business. Punk, Sweat and Beers. Other online newsletter material:.
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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » Symbiosis
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. August 13th, 2012. Natural order is in disorder. Problems crack open like chicks from eggs. Gardens wither in the shadow of neglect. I cast the problems to the wind. Thinking nature takes care,. Who am I to interfere? I flee west to dance on mountains,. Where the gods’ gardens grow without my help. Sun bleaches clean, rain rinses despair. At home on the flat land,. Vines choke delicate blooms,. Weeds squat in empty beds. And break my heart.
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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » Retrofit
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. November 30th, 2012. 8220;But I do think that when you own something that once belonged to someone else, it’s like some secret contact with them, with their past. A way to touch people without having things get all messy and emotional. That is what second hand is. But then there are always people who worry about whether those hands were properly washed.”. 8211;Michael Zadoorian,. 8221;Second Hand”. Something that touched someone else’s skin? Within...
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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » The crossroads
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. July 17th, 2014. Today’s post is inspired by San Diego Momma’s PROMPTuesday No. 207. Who was your crossroads person? Back in my 20s, the publisher of one of our downtown daily papers took an interest in me. He’d read an essay I’d written and wrote me a personal message in response. He also invited me to visit his office some day. He was a dynamic man, highly regarded, a great people person and a mender of fences. In shock, I studied the pattern on ...
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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » A stinkhorn by any other name …
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. A stinkhorn by any other name …. August 24th, 2014. I’m a curious sort of person. So, on a string of late summer nights, when I heard through the open windows a low trilling coming from a thick stand of trees in my neighbor’s yard, I began yet another obsessive search for answers. Yucky, real-life shot. After I photographed this fetid fungal specimen I went inside, calmed my stomach, washed my hands, and began Googling. Fungus virilis penis effigie.
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Shirley A. McShane » Blog Archive » A gift and a lesson
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. A gift and a lesson. May 14th, 2013. I scan the crowded room for a familiar face. It’s a big room, outfitted with the type of couches and chairs that swallow you whole, heavily ornamented light fixtures, and emotionally neutral paintings. At the front is. Dear father, beloved husband, dear son. Why is that a death word? Do we ever say that in life? Is it the flowers or the picture collages that make it hard for me to swallow? Mortified, I didn̵...
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Shirley A. McShane » Another thought
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. July 17th, 2014. Today’s post is inspired by San Diego Momma’s PROMPTuesday No. 207. Who was your crossroads person? Back in my 20s, the publisher of one of our downtown daily papers took an interest in me. He’d read an essay I’d written and wrote me a personal message in response. He also invited me to visit his office some day. He was a dynamic man, highly regarded, a great people person and a mender of fences. In shock, I studied the pattern on ...
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Shirley A. McShane » History
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Shirley A. McShane. Professional writer and copy editor. Crime-scene reporting in Warren, Michigan. Bachelor of arts degree in journalism. Rochester, Mich. 1990. Mount Clemens, Mich., 1988-1990, general-assignment reporting. C and G Publishing. Warren, Mich., 1991-1992, community journalism: focus on police and courts. The Grosse Pointe News. Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., 1992-1998, community journalism: focus on education; wrote monthly features column; designed schools pages. Freelance editing and writing.
