Writers have responsibilities

Like most writers I know, dodging work is a big part of my day. I walk the dogs. I work in the garden. I play on Facebook, I stalk folks on Twitter…mostly Mark Ruffalo and Margaret Atwood.

Occasionally, though, productive things come out of social media, productive things such as ideas for columns. Most of my friends on Facebook are writers, so we often talk about writerly things.

The other day a friend put up a newspaper article from South Africa where a writer was complaining about a publisher there who had ‘cheated’ them.

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Closure as pain lingers

March 28 will go down as a day that Batswana will never forget because of the accident that occurred near Mmamatlakala in Limpopo, South Africa. The tragedy affected not only the grieving families but the nation at large. Batswana throughout the process stood behind the grieving families and the governments of Botswana and South Africa need much more than a pat on the back.Last Saturday was a day when family members said their last goodbyes to...

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