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Ghosts of Fourth Street
Estrangement & disinheritance: Memoirist Laurie Hertzel faced the most extreme reaction memoirists fear. Here, she speaks of these issues & much more…
May 4
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The Beautiful Terror of Publication
There is always another threshold, another moment of gathering ourselves before the leap.
Apr 27
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Writing = Living: Here's Why
Ten Ways Creative Writing Intersects With Building A Better, Richer, More Meaningful Life
Apr 22
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Open Mic Salon Replay | Beautiful!
What a beautiful salon yesterday!
Apr 1
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What Exactly Is The Heart For?
When the heart forgets, briefly, the song it was singing
Mar 23
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The Shape of a Life
On the iconic Georgia O'Keeffe and what her life tells us about desire, stakes, agency, and the art of living as though the story matters
Mar 17
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The Only Voice There Is
You cannot describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything. ~James Baldwin
Mar 9
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Moated Castles: Why I Don't Write About My Marriage
Lit Salon on the things writers choose not to write, and the three kinds of stories we protect for different reasons
Mar 2
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What Kind of Place Makes Writers?
Here is what travel and writing share, finally, when you get down to it: they both require you to go somewhere you haven’t been
Feb 23
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One Writing Exercise That Always Works
Lit Salon: A lovely short essay by Michelle Dowd, based on one of my favorite writing exercises!
Feb 16
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The Bird, the Tongue, The Cost
Why I'm writing "off brand" and support others in doing so, too
Jan 26
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How I Sold My Book to a Big 5 Publisher
A deep-dive publishing twist-and-turn story of doggedness, intuition, nimbleness, and luck for those who like that kind of thing (with a few words of…
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