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A Little Bit of Astonishing News!
Writing in the Dark is becoming a book!
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The Moment Before the Click
Here's the thing about early judgments ... they don’t stay in the past, they become architecture. They become load-bearing
Dec 8
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Let’s Try This: A Tiny Image Becomes a Story
A Shared Experiment in Attention, Memory, and Drift
Dec 4
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I don't usually sob when I hear "Old Man" by Neil Young, but
today it played on my way home from the emergency vet with Frannie on my lap—a four-hour ordeal of quarantine in a separate windowless cinderblock…
Dec 4
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Sometimes Bewildered, Sometimes Brave
A meditation on hospitals, art, fear, and failure, plus a sale on new annual subscriptions
Dec 2
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The Miserable Childhood Leads to Royalties ~ Frank McCourt
The challenge and the art of the six-word memoir!
Nov 26
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This Is What Makes Us Human (Hint: It Isn’t Productivity Or Opposable Thumbs)
Scientists widely agree that complex language is what makes us human.
Nov 24
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Write-In Today! Friday, November 24 at 10 AM Central
Writing can be lonely. But it doesn’t always have to be. Come write with us!
Nov 24
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We Will Always Be Both Torn And Whole
I learned early that writing can be a kind of rescue and a path to becoming
Nov 21
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A single sentence as aperture; a final line as reckoning
Microflash asks us to do something paradoxical: create a narrative so brief it can be read in seconds, yet resonant enough to echo in the body for hours…
Nov 19
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How to Write in the Dark: Everything You Need to Know to Begin
Plus a reminder to check your spam folders for an email from CRAFT SCHOOL
Nov 18
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Late November, Northern Latitude
Also, waitlist registration for CRAFT SCHOOL opens today!!!
Nov 17
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