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A Sliver of Truth In A Time Of Tyranny
Creative writing as an alchemical process of strength and transformation
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Substack Visionary Jeannine Ouellette: How Generosity and Expansion Lead to Meteoric Substack Growth
Archived from the Substack Visionaries Series by Sarah Fay | Writers at Work
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How To Be A Writer
From the Archive | 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: What should we watch right now?
Hi! Let's talk about shows/movies we're watching right now, or have watched recently or want to watch soon or think everyone else should watch, too!
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“We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's…
Week Two | For the Joy & the Sorrow | Something I've Noticed
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On Curiosity: Surrendering our idea of the story to let the larger story emerge (on the page and in life)
Lit Salon on the power of "What If?" and the glory of letting ourselves not know, plus three valuable exercises for increasing our writerly curiosity…
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What Do Editors Really Want?
From the Archive | Lit Salon on five things I want to see in writing ... and five things I don't
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🧵 Thursday Thread: Can we talk about money?
We can't live without it but many of us have tarnished relationships with it. So, let's dig into our beliefs about money and how those beliefs shape our…
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Is Sorrow the True Wild?
Week One | For the Joy & the Sorrow | Writing toward delight while exploring joy as "terror and delight sitting next to each other, their feet dangling…
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"For the Joy & The Sorrow: Writing the World," Starts Tomorrow!
Write with us for the next 12 weeks as we strive to see the world in all its brutal beauty, while aiming to get as close up to the world with our words…
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This will change how you write forever.
Because yes, we can capture the waking dream of wonder, awe & truth in words. (Also, fun new bits at WITD for 2025, like quarterly calendars, more live…
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I am reaching for a dream, not a resolution
I invite you to join me
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