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From The Archives | Ten Questions (And So-Called "Answers") About The Writing Life
From The Archives | Dear Not Enough: You Are Actually More Than Enough, I Promise
Write Like A Child Running Down A Hill
🎧 I Don't Intend To Get Out Without A Broken Heart ~Andrea Gibson
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. ~Kurt Vonnegut
Dear Grotesque: I Really Debated Whether To Share A Big Photo Of My Face
How I Grew My Substack from (Almost) Zero to 40K Annual Income in Just 12 Months
How I Grew My Substack from Zero to 40K Annual Income in Just 12 Months
Happy Birthday, Writing in the Dark! Oh, How You've Grown!
From The Archives | Searching for Agates, Not Revising & Believing in Our Future Selves
3 Things: A Baby Bat, A Super Ball Family & A Leap
I Can See A Million Miles From Here
WITD's 12-Week Story Challenge Starts Next Wednesday!
It Could Be Weeds In a Vacant Lot
From The Archives: The Surprising Sound of Mary Oliver's Voice
Permission and This Ruse You Call Necessity
Dear Heavy: Here's What Worked For Me in My Darkest Hours
From The Archives | Dear Stuck: What Are We So Afraid Of?
Finally On My Way To Yes I Bump Into All The Places Where I Said No To My Life ~ Pesha Gertler
🎧 An Honest Account: The Art of the Confession
Dear Not Even Close: In The Middle of the Writing, Our Minds Play Tricks On Us
From The Archives | Louise Erdrich On Self Doubt, Exhaustion, Motherhood & War
🎧 Saying Grace, David Sedaris & Fudge-Colored Towels
Dear Hollow: I Don't Know What It Means To Walk Each Other Home
Writing in the Dark's First 12-Week Story Challenge Starts Soon!
Injured Beavers See Each Other For The First Time and Fall Instantly In Love
When They Fight & When They Sing
Dear Too Raw: Yes, You Can Make That Terrible Story Bearable—Here’s How
Our Animals, Ourselves: A Strange Writing Exercise
From The Archives | The Very Bad Writing Workshop (& What To Do Instead)
This is How Literary Fiction Teaches Us to Be Human
When I Think About The End of the World
Dear Scared to Know: Writing About Our Lives *IS* Scary, But Not For The Reasons You Might Think
From The Archives | To Have, Give All to All, or What It Means to Write (& Live) Generously
The Importance of "Teeth" in the Art of Revision
On Purpose and Zero-Waste Writing—Or, How to Finally Finish A Thing
🎧 The Transformative Power of Finishing Things (& How to Actually Do That)
Dear Rejected: It Can Hurt Like Hell, But Here's How To Press On And Improve Your Odds
Dear Curious: Is That Fucked Up?
From The Archives | Ten Questions (And So-Called "Answers") About The Writing Life
Before I was falling, I was flying
Turning Under the Garden, Turning Over the Dresser Drawers
Dear Not Enough: You Are Actually More Than Enough, I Promise
POV, Wingless Bodies, and Uninvited Guests
Dear Lizard Brain: Whatever It Is That Scares You, Write That
Sliding Fee Slots Available on Two Beautiful Fall Writing Classes
The Uncommon Light of Memory (Pause, Reprieve, Exhale)
Dear Afraid of Cringing: Can Something Be And Not Be At The Same Time?
Nine Big Lessons My Fearful Puppy Taught Me About Writing
Dear Nothing New: It's All About The Wanting
Tension and Shape: How Incongruous Things Press Against Each Other to Make Meaning
Dear Too Late: You Are Worth So Much More Than Your Manuscript
How do we reveal truths that those more powerful than us want to suppress?
Dear Why Bother: Yes, You Should Finish Your Book Even if The World Is Ending
95% Percent of Our Thoughts Are Repetitive ... But We Can Change That
Looking For The Answer Inside Your Question
Attention is the Beginning of Devotion
The Things Themselves, Alive With Metaphor
Our First Essay Challenge Begins Tomorrow!
Dear Flat: To Have Lived (And Suffered) Is Not Enough
The Feeling of (Highly Specific) Things
Dear Faker: Writing is Supposed To Be Hard ...
How To Memorize Your Heart's Subtle Voice
Dear Dried Up: Join Me in Perpetual Chasing & Holy Gratitude
Starting Soon, Writing in the Dark's "Essay in 12 Steps" Challenge!
To Have, Give All to All, or What It Means to Write (& Live) Generously
Dear Asshole: That Way Madness Lies
Writing in the Dark's First "Essay in 12 Steps" Challenge
That's Marvelous, Could I Do It?
Dear Tired: The Self Will Not Be Forced Under
Dear Scared to Feel Too Much: Sometimes, Writing Saves Us
Lessons from an Unsuspecting Bestseller
Dear Stuck: What Are We So Afraid Of?
Kazuo Ishiguro Wrote REMAINS OF THE DAY in Four Weeks & Now I Understand How He Did It
How to Speed Without Crashing—Or, The Art of the Truly Breathless Scene
Is It True That Anyone Can Write?
"THE COST": A Flash Sale On Annual Subscriptions
The Moment After Which Everything Changed
In Celebration of Un-Silencing
The Scariest Thing I've Ever Written
The Theme Was Inspiration (Or Why I Cannot Remember Prom)
The Fairy Tale as Inner Threshold
Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought. ~Albert Einstein
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. – Le Corbusier
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
The Surprising Sound of Mary Oliver's Voice
That Little Voice: The Outsized Power of a Child Narrator
Tomorrow! Writing in the Dark's First 30-Day Creativity Challenge Begins!
You Don't Necessarily Sense the Motion
Writing in the Dark’s First 30-Day Creativity Challenge
Tell Me About Cars, Yours, And I Will Tell You Mine
Family Matters: The Ethics, Challenges & Rewards of Writing About Family
Letter to My Daughter on Her Seventh Birthday
Writing Prompt: The Surprising Power of Slowing (& Even Stopping) Time
Why Creativity Breaks Our Hearts
The Paper Route: A Lesson in Letting Go
All Flesh is Proud of Its Wounds
Why I Write: The Unvarnished Truth
Of Heat & Need & What it Takes
How to Actually Become a Better Writer
You know those morning when you wake up and it’s not perfect?
Unspooling Our Way to the Truth
Writing Prompt: Break the Mirror
An Exacting Tool For Finding Your Story's Aboutness
Louise Erdrich On Writer's Self Doubt, Exhaustion, Motherhood & War
The One (and Only) Technique That Finally Helped Me Write About Trauma