Lit Salon

My Creative Manifesto

Part Two of Two: Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Building A Newsletter During My First Two Years On Substack

15 hrs ago •

Jeannine Ouellette

Writing = Living: Here's Why

Ten Ways Creative Writing Intersects With Building A Better, Richer, More Meaningful Life

Dec 15 •

Jeannine Ouellette

My Father Is Not A Swan

From the Archive: Lit Salon on what a "narrative turn" really is, why it matters, and how you can include them in your writing to make it more…

Dec 10 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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…

Dec 10 •

Jeannine Ouellette

First, I Made A Wish

Lit Salon: A triptych of defiant hope

Dec 10 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Writing that Sings and Sears

They say you should use the "reflective voice" ... but is it true? And what does it really mean?

Dec 9 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Don’t Let Writing Advice Silence Your Authorial Voice?

Lit Salon on the perennial question of writing instruction ... and whether it does more harm than good

Dec 2 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Be Brave & Write Beautifully

Two tiny lessons for building a creative life of words

Nov 18 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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…

Nov 4 •

Jeannine Ouellette

The Part That Burns

I don’t believe in jackalopes. But people have to make up their own minds about these things.

Oct 28 •

Jeannine Ouellette

Hopelessly Entangled In Stars

Why your particles are mine and mine are yours, and the brutal beauty of quantum entanglement.

Oct 25 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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…

Oct 18 •

Jeannine Ouellette

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