Dear Scared to Feel Too Much: Sometimes, Writing Saves Us
From the Archive| Lit Salon on the astounding healing potency of writing, the risks and side effects, and some ways to be safe while doing the hardest work.
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Wed June 5, 8:30 AM Write-In (paid)
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🕯️Fri June 21, 1 PM CT, Celebratory Live Solstice Salon w/open mic (founding)
📝 Thursday, June 27, 5:30-8:30 PM/ CT Live Class on Zoom: The Feeling of What Happens: Advanced Techniques for Writing That Stirs Emotion
Hi, friends,
We’ve been having the most incredible conversations about the writing process this week. I am a huge devotee of process over product—we can learn as much by “close reading” our writing process (how it feels, what changes, what emerges, what recedes) as by close reading literature. We can transform our writing practice (and, over time, our writing) by observing the way we write more carefully. So, I like to talk about it, because that’s how we get granular.
Our incredible…