You can't sling a Selectric ribbon in this city without grazing a writer, it seems. The sidewalks are paved, not with gold, but with words.
Plenty of teachers and an alphabet soup of programs are here to develop talent - the NWP, WW, IWP, Summer Writing Festival. I'm reminded of Flannery O'Connor's words: "There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Apart from these, the sun rises or sets on hundreds of individuals sitting down to their desks each day in this town, struggling, shaping, revising, cursing, rejoicing. The right flow of words comes, and one ...