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Amy Hudock to beginning writers: 'Don't wait to be discovered'

Amy Stockwell Mercer is a freelance writer living in Charleston, SC with her husband and three sons. An MFA graduate in Creative Writing from Queens University, she writes about art and artist profiles for Charleston Magazine, The City Paper, Charleston Art Mag, and Art Papers. Amy also writes about living with chronic illness, and is finishing a book about women with diabetes for Demos Health. When she needs to get out of her own head, she teaches college students how to write the 5 paragraph essay. You can read more of her writing at her website.

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Amy Hudock to beginning writers: 'Don't wait to be discovered'

Posted in General by Amy Mercer on May 20, 2010

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Read Founding Editor Amy Hudock's interview with The Post and Courier's Charleston Scene:

Writing is all about play and experiments, and is a bit wild and untamed. Editing is all about shaping and organizing the play, making the "child" fit for polite society. Writing is the child in me, and editing is the mother.