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9 Key Questions and 26 Craft Keys for Revising our Writing to be Stronger, Clearer & More alive
From the Archive | "Like a cruise ship slowly turning, the story will start to alter course via ... thousands of incremental adjustments" ~George…
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You
Lit Salon on how, as Audre Lorde says, "survival is not just a walk through the rain"
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This Writer Used Step 3 of the WITD Workshop Method To Get An Essay Into HuffPost Personal Today. You Can Use It, Too.
Lit Salon | We sometimes say we don't write a straight line from A to B because we don't want to. But might it be that we don't know how? Here's how and…
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I believe in invisible strings, the uncombed hair of toddlers & complicated miracles. And I always will.
Lit Salon | My work will appear Invisible Strings, the new anthology inspired by the music of Taylor Swift, and here's how it happened!
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Dear Flat: To Have Lived (And Suffered) Is Not Enough
From the Archives | Lit Salon on evoking emotion with our writing + the mysterious balance of inner, outer, and other mode + what writers know about…
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To inhabit someone else’s body in prose is to be a kind of foreigner—an outsider with an insider’s access. And isn’t that why we read…
From the Archive | Lit Salon Answers the Question, What is Embodied Writing, Anyway + Our Next Seasonal Intensive, "Strange Containers," on Flash…
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Absolute Attention is Prayer
Lit Salon | Marie Howe says, "This might be the most difficult task ... in postmodern life …to look long enough so that we can look through it—like a…
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Dear Too Late: You Are Worth So Much More Than Your Manuscript—Creativity is Your Birthright
From the Archive | Lit Salon on reanimating stalled projects and decoupling self-worth from creative output. Creativity is your birthright, so get…
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Here Is The 5-Step WITD Method This Writer Used To Help Get Her Essay Into the NYT Last Weekend. You Can Use It, Too.
Lit Salon | Creative work is sacred, vulnerable, and alive. It does not grow in the harsh soil of other people’s undisciplined opinions. I teach a…
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Welcome To Our Family (Officially), Z ❤️
Lit Salon shares a joyful announcement + community love notes + call for submissions + an interview! + share your burning questions on the writing life…
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“Literature makes us better noticers of life; we ... practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature…
Tuesday Roundup ... Next Write-In Tomorrow, Join Us! | Submit Your Work to WITD! | The Feeling of What Happens is FULL (you can join the waitlist) | Z's…
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On Injustice (For My Sister-in-Law)
A New Lit Salon Essay By Sarah Orman, Including Sarah's Author Note & Thoughts on the Editorial Process
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