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9 Key Questions and 26 Craft Keys for Revising our Writing to be Stronger, Clearer & More alive
From the Archive | "Like a cruise ship slowly turning, the story will start to alter course via ... thousands of incremental adjustments" ~George…
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🧵 Thursday Thread: “The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”― Willa Cather
Tell me, what is it you REALLY want to feel, and what can you do this year, month, week, and day to start feeling that way more often in this little…
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What Do You Actually Want & How Bad Do You Want It?
How gratitude, contentment & desire work synergistically (not in opposition!) to fuel creativity. Plus, an AI writing exercise (yes, AI! we'll discuss…
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Incorrigible: A Love Story
I wanted to be good so my mother would love me. But I didn't know how.
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Lit Salon on how, as Audre Lorde says, "survival is not just a walk through the rain"
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How to Write in the Dark: Everything You Need to Know to Begin
From the Archives | What we do here, where to start, how to get the most from the posts + how to submit your own work
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🧵 Thursday Thread: WITD CLASSIFIEDS
If you like piña coladas, getting caught in the rain ... just kidding (sort of) because you never know what you might find in the classifieds. Let's…
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“I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.” – Anaïs Nin
One Day Flash Sale in celebration of my essay, "The Cost," being selected as a finalist for Best of the Net. Also, TWO unconventional exercises for…
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Announcing WITD Classifieds!
Because who doesn't love and miss the classifieds?!
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This Writer Used Step 3 of the WITD Workshop Method To Get An Essay Into HuffPost Personal Today. You Can Use It, Too.
Lit Salon | We sometimes say we don't write a straight line from A to B because we don't want to. But might it be that we don't know how? Here's how and…
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How To Be A Writer (Even if You Lurk)
From the Archives | Building piles and piles of words is not enough. Good writing has a raw, disobedient quality, a feral disposition. So how do we…
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🧵 Thursday Thread: We Lie Loudest When We Lie To Ourselves
Carl Sagan said where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. Is this true for you? When have you caught yourself lying to yourself …
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