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Hungering For A Home That Could Hold Her
From the Archive| A Lit Salon post on the thrill of naming our dreams out loud even as we tremble, knowing our dreams have saved our lives before, and…
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I Want Your Wingless Body, Your Solid Bones
From the Archive | The rest is feathers and ash
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Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts
From the Archives | The number one most helpful practice you can take up to improve your writing is to pay close attention to the world.
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Write Like A Child Running Down A Hill
Lit Salon on the question of fear and art & the trembling surrender necessary for the risk of opening ourselves to Being & why that's both surprisingly…
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From Playful to Profound: How Tapping into Joy Brought My Hardest Stories Alive on the Page
A fast, deep dive into the one craft technique that finally freed me creatively, and why and how I still use it
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How To Be A Writer
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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Welcome to my heart! Let me open the door.
A short video meditation on what it really means to "write in the dark" together
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There, hanging weightless in the void, I saw it: our pale blue world under its papery blanket of light.
Hi, friends—an essay for you this Saturday morning, first published in 2020 in Tupelo Quarterly. Some announcements at the end. Also, many thanks to…
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Injured Beavers See Each Other For The First Time and Fall Instantly In Love
From the Archive: On the problem of writing through grief and complex heartbreak + how to write without writing + to hell with imposter syndrome
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Later This Girl Will Drive With Windows Down And Sing. But First She Will Tremble on The Cliff Above Her Terrible Divorce.
Also! Please Share Your Audio/Video Thoughts About Writing in The Dark To Win a Signed Copy of THE PART THAT BURNS! First Three Who Respond Win!
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Lit Salon on the epidemic of the shrinking attention span & a simple exercise for writing when you feel like a butterfly in a hurricane
Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager. ― Susan Sontag
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Howling Under A Smooth Surface
I wanted to feel all the parts of myself alive and awake inside myself, and still, somehow, survive
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