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I Want to Write the Kind of Book You Read Slowly
I read for my work the way some people (hello, self) eat standing up in the kitchen—quickly, efficiently, always aware of what comes next.
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🧵 Thursday Thread: Can we talk about the holidays?
Holiday memories—whether poignant, uproariously funny, quietly devastating, or full of unexpected tenderness—are rich fodder for creative work
Dec 11
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What "That Place on Daniel Island" Teaches Us About Returning, Distance, and the Quiet Violence of Change
Write with us today, in our last installment of The Infinite Small intensive on micro flash!
Dec 10
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A Little Bit of Astonishing News!
Writing in the Dark is becoming a book!
Dec 9
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The Moment Before the Click
Here's the thing about early judgments ... they don’t stay in the past, they become architecture. They become load-bearing
Dec 8
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Let’s Try This: A Tiny Image Becomes a Story
A Shared Experiment in Attention, Memory, and Drift
Dec 4
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I don't usually sob when I hear "Old Man" by Neil Young, but
today it played on my way home from the emergency vet with Frannie on my lap—a four-hour ordeal of quarantine in a separate windowless cinderblock…
Dec 4
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Sometimes Bewildered, Sometimes Brave
A meditation on hospitals, art, fear, and failure, plus a sale on new annual subscriptions
Dec 2
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November 2025
The Miserable Childhood Leads to Royalties ~ Frank McCourt
The challenge and the art of the six-word memoir!
Nov 26
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This Is What Makes Us Human (Hint: It Isn’t Productivity Or Opposable Thumbs)
Scientists widely agree that complex language is what makes us human.
Nov 24
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Write-In Today! Friday, November 24 at 10 AM Central
Writing can be lonely. But it doesn’t always have to be. Come write with us!
Nov 24
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Join Today's Write-In Here! 10-11 AM Central Time
Monday, November 24 Writing in the Dark | The COMMONS Write-In Today
Nov 24
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