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Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts
[Note: I sent this out earlier tonight to paid subscribers only, when I MEANT to sent it as a free post & gift to ALL subscribers—as my thanks for being…
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Is It True That Anyone Can Write?
"Writing Prompt: One Shape, Several Stories" + thoughts on art and accessibility + + System 1 and System 2 of the brain and how the former works against…
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Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colours, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the…
On embodied memory, untaming your draft, and zero-waste writing
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The Scariest Thing I've Ever Written
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How to Actually Become a Better Writer
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Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. ― Susan…
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Why I Write: The Unvarnished Truth
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Before we can find the answer — before we can even know the question — we must be immersed in disappointment, convinced that a solution is…
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Writing Prompt: We Did Not See A Fox
On the allure of absence & how we enliven and give it shape with our imaginings + bikes & dogs & obstacles + an unexpected mystery involving Mary…
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"THE COST": A Flash Sale On Annual Subscriptions
In sincere gratitude for the outpouring of support in response to my essay, "The Cost," which appeared Saturday in Ilanot Review's Money issue, I extend…
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Writing Prompt: The Moment After Which Everything Changed
On thresholds and the line between what happens and what doesn't + the one thing that will always, always make the writing harder (so, don't do it…
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In Celebration of Un-Silencing
On behalf of children past, present & future, including the child I once was, and the child you once were + the revolutionary power of writing from, and…
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The Scariest Thing I've Ever Written
If something bad happens and only you know it, is it your fault?
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Writing Prompt: Holding Wonder Like a Cup
On the difficulty of seeing + power of the meticulously observed image + the intersection of art & science + the challenge of understanding things as…
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The Theme Was Inspiration (Or Why I Cannot Remember Prom)
Forgetting is normal, but exactly how we forget—the molecular, cellular, and brain circuit mechanisms underlying the process—remains mysterious.
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Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette
Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives." ~Toni Morrison
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