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I Was a Child in a Child's Body.
But that child’s body was tucked inside the body of a mother, a ghost mother who would be my doorway to a new world
Jul 21
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In writing as in life, we fear to excise what we treasure—or what we have treasured.
But we also learn to become survivors of our own choices
Jul 14
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In writing as in life, we fear to excise what we treasure—or what we have treasured.
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The Lantern and the Latch
Thoughts On the Indelible Power of Artistic Mentorship
Jul 7
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The Wilderness Has Teeth, But It Sings
We took our four-year-old grandson, Z, to the cabin this weekend, along with his mom, Billie.
Jun 30
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The Dream That Wasn’t: On Letting Go, Becoming, and the Quiet Joy of Making
Lit Salon on the strange holiness of plans that collapse and don't come back
Jun 23
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The Dream That Wasn’t: On Letting Go, Becoming, and the Quiet Joy of Making
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The 5-Step WITD Method That Helped Get This Writer Into The NYT. She Calls It "A Total Game Changer"
Creative work is sacred, vulnerable, and alive. It does not grow in the harsh soil of other people’s unprepared opinions. There is a better way, and you…
Jun 20
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The 5-Step WITD Method That Helped Get This Writer Into The NYT. She Calls It "A Total Game Changer"
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The Shapeless Hour
Lit Salon on what to do when a sentence won’t hold. A self won’t hold. The structure you built, patiently, exquisitely, won’t carry weight. You touch it…
Jun 16
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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
Jun 13
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Let's Say You're To Write About Love
For Max and Kaela on Their Wedding Day
Jun 9
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What An Editor Really Wants
From the Archive | Lit Salon on five things I want to see in writing ... and five things I don't
Jun 6
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What the Trees Know That We’ve Forgotten
And why it matters for writers
Jun 2
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I Am Trying To Tell You Something About Ghosts
And an invocation for the living and the gone
May 26
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