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A backwards glance

January is named after Janus, the ancient Roman god of gateways and transitions, who is usually depicted as having two faces, one looking to the future and one to the past. So, this month’s free-range writing is all about looking forward and looking back.

Free-range writing flexes all your writing muscles, your practical nonfiction voices and your lyrical poetic ones, your fanciful fictions and meditative memoirs, and every mood and style between. These little twentyminute workouts will

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