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The Importance of "Teeth" in the Art of Revision
Essay in 12 Steps | TWELVE | "There is something wonderful in watching a figure emerge...that seems to have a plan, which seems to be: to lead you to…
Apr 8
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On Purpose and Zero-Waste Writing—Or, How to Finally Finish A Thing
Essay in 12 Steps | ELEVEN | "I can't write the book I want to write. But I can and will write the book I am capable of writing." ~Ann Pattchett
Apr 1
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Before I was falling, I was flying
Essay in 12 Steps | NINE | There is a pain so utter that it swallows substance up. Then covers the abyss with trance— So memory can step…
Mar 18
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POV, Wingless Bodies, and Uninvited Guests
Essay in 12 Steps | EIGHT | This is the message. We are at the top of the river. Who are you? Please put us back in the water. We are floating to the…
Mar 11
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Carved By Water | Unknowing on the Path to a Pushcart Nomination
Essay in 12 Steps | SEVEN | All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering ... the…
Mar 4
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The Uncommon Light of Memory (Pause, Reprieve, Exhale)
Essay in 12 Steps | SIX | the attentive writer... will find that there is, rippling on the edges of a daydream, the unfolding of the perfect solution…
Feb 25
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Pulling Threads, Making Clay
Essay in 12 Steps | FIVE | The job of the ... writer is to say, Here I am world, and here is the world, and out of this oxymoronic writing, we are here…
Feb 18
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The Magic of Radical Failure
Essay in 12 Steps | THREE | An unconventional exercise guaranteed to produce startling original writing + Annie Ernaux's flat writing + what creative…
Feb 4
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Looking For The Answer Inside Your Question
Essay in 12 Steps | TWO | "Without a question we are forever shut out of the inner life of one another." ~Paul Matthews
Jan 28
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The Essay Is Not What You Think It Is
In a culture addicted to polarity and certainty, the essay teaches us how to think, question, and become our truest and most complicated selves.
Jan 6
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The Bruising And The Mending
A gorgeous first Live Salon + the strange beauty of Halloween + a thing recently created with my "famous" 15-minute timer method + an exquisite corpse…
Nov 1, 2023
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The Importance of "Teeth" in the Art of Revision
Essay in 12 Steps | TWELVE | "There is something wonderful in watching a figure emerge...that seems to have a plan, which seems to be: to lead you to…
Oct 18, 2023
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