Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

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June 2025

The Wilderness Has Teeth, But It Sings
We took our four-year-old grandson, Z, to the cabin this weekend, along with his mom, Billie.
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🧵 Thursday Thread: On Longing and Loneliness
Do you feel like you have enough friends? How do you know?
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Writing Place as a Map of the Heart
The Power of Place | Week Three | Sometimes, landmarks are more than the sum of their parts
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The Gaps Become Gardens
On writing not to describe the world, but to become it
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The Dream That Wasn’t: On Letting Go, Becoming, and the Quiet Joy of Making
Lit Salon on the strange holiness of plans that collapse and don't come back
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The 5-Step WITD Method That Helped Get This Writer Into The NYT. She Calls It "A Total Game Changer"
Creative work is sacred, vulnerable, and alive. It does not grow in the harsh soil of other people’s unprepared opinions. There is a better way, and you…
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🧵 Thursday Thread: The "Journaling Question"
Do you or don't you journal? How, when, where? Do you ever destroy journals? Do you worry about harm from journaling--to others or yourself? Has…
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How Setting Exerts Force Not as Metaphor But Mechanism; Come Write With Us!
The Power of Place | Week Two | A Place Where Something Goes Quietly Wrong
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The Shapeless Hour
Lit Salon on what to do when a sentence won’t hold. A self won’t hold. The structure you built, patiently, exquisitely, won’t carry weight. You touch it…
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Don’t Let Writing Advice Silence Your Authorial Voice?
Lit Salon on the perennial question of writing instruction ... and whether it does more harm than good
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