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Be Brave & Write Beautifully
Two tiny lessons for building a creative life of words
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First, I Made A Wish
Lit Salon: A triptych of defiant hope
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Real Isn't How You Are Made. It's A Thing That Happens To You.
Lit Salon on the question of what makes for "real" writing + the tendency to "covet" the pain of the writing life + the enlivening experience of…
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The Part That Burns
I don’t believe in jackalopes. But people have to make up their own minds about these things.
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Hopelessly Entangled In Stars
Why your particles are mine and mine are yours, and the brutal beauty of quantum entanglement.
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Beyond Shitty First Drafts
Lit Salon on severe writer's block, dead muses, and dried up inspiration + 3 researched methods to get writing and keep yourself writing (including a…
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Reclaiming Voices Like Needles In Haystacks
A New WITD Lit Salon Essay By Bailey Gaylin Moore, With An Author Note from Bailey
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From the Archives | Dear Curious: Is That Fucked Up?
Lit Salon on what it means to write things that "reach far enough into the universe to make things messier and more difficult"
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🎧 You're Never Too Late & Always Enough
Lit Salon on the harm of comparison, the futility of falsely high expectations, the power of knowing what you want, and the surprising force of desire…
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Dear Rejected: Here's How To Press On And Improve Your Odds
Lit Salon addresses the truth of rejection in the literary life from three angles: the human, the artistic, and the mathematical + the real reason…
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Since My Dad Died
Once again, writing saves my life
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This Writer Used WITD's Workshop Method To Get Into HuffPost Personal. You Can, Too.
From the Archive | We might say we don't write straight from A to B because we don't want to. But, maybe we don't know how? Here's how and why to be…
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