Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

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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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🧵 Thursday Thread | The Friendship Experiment
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Mead
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The Power of Place Writing Intensive Starts Now! Write With Us!
The Power of Place | Week One | It's A Town Where ....
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Let's Say You're To Write About Love
For Max and Kaela on Their Wedding Day
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What An Editor Really Wants
From the Archive | Lit Salon on five things I want to see in writing ... and five things I don't
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🧵 Thursday Thread | We Need To Talk About AI
No, really, we do. As writers, creators, humans, we really, really do.
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What Are You Willing to Be Misunderstood For?
What can you do when people misread, misinterpret, misconstrue, misremember, or even totally misunderstand your writing, and judge you according to…
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What the Trees Know That We’ve Forgotten
And why it matters for writers
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