Archive - Writing in the Dark with Jeannine Ouellette

🧵 Thursday Thread: Have you ever been caught in the rain?

Or snow? Or severe cold? Or wind? I want your weather stories, one and all!

Jul 24 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Dear Future Self, I'm Still Afraid

Three exercises for writing against the grain and straight into the heart of fear

Jul 23 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Language Should Dig Beneath Certainty

Or, how I panicked when asked to write about love

Jul 22 •

Jeannine Ouellette

I Was a Child in a Child's Body.

But that child’s body was tucked inside the body of a mother, a ghost mother who would be my doorway to a new world

Jul 21 •

Jeannine Ouellette

🧵 Thursday Thread: It's Time for Another Book Thread!

What are you all reading right now? And why is it holding your attention? And most importantly, why should the rest of us be reading it too?!

Jul 17 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The Geography of One Moment

When a moment in time becomes so immersive it is locatable, as if you could walk into it

Jul 16 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Some Days I Can’t Swallow the Sky

In honor of Andrea Gibson

Jul 15 •

Jeannine Ouellette

In writing as in life, we fear to excise what we treasure—or what we have treasured.

But we also learn to become survivors of our own choices

Jul 14 •

Jeannine Ouellette

🧵 Thursday Thread: Fandom, Concerts, Coming of Age

Love & Some Verses: Let's tell concert stories: firsts, bests, worsts, and everything in between

Jul 10 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The Thing That Would Postpone Our Deaths

The Power of Place | Week Five | A study in foreshadowing through doubled place-detail: revelation and concealment

Jul 9 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The Lantern and the Latch

Thoughts On the Indelible Power of Artistic Mentorship

Jul 7 •

Jeannine Ouellette

🧵 Thursday Thread: What are we watching now?

I just watched a series with the best, most beautiful sex scenes I've maybe ever seen. What should I watch next? What's not to be missed? What are you…

Jul 3 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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