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Writing the Quotidian
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Writing the Quotidian

by Iris Graville

Jan 20, 2023
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by Iris Graville, author of Hiking Naked

Quotidian.  I read that word in an essay I critiqued during my first semester in my MFA program. I had to look it up.  Ironically, it’s a fancy word for something that’s not, well, very fancy.  Here’s how the New Oxford American Dictionary defines it:

quotidian |kwōˈtidēən|

adjective [ attrib…

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