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The author discusses the adventures of an aspiring writer at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers Fiction Conference, where he appreciated the wilderness and ski condominiums. He emphasizes his story, which plays a middle-aged oil-pipeline worker's slow demise following an injury, while his wife continues with her culinary responsibilities. During a meeting with an editor, he mentions interacting with a cheery redhead, discussing naturalism and sharing his published but non-naturalistic story. |