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Essay in 12 Steps | TEN | Remember that the essay is just an artifact; it's the process of writing the essay that is alive, that is a living thing, that…
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I grew up in silence. This is what writing gave me.
The fence was too high, but ladders can be built from words
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Did Someone Surprising Drive You To The Dentist?
One of the best writing exercises I've ever given
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A Holiness That Exists Inside Everything
Dear friends,
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One Writing Exercise That Always Works
I’m still basking in CAMP memories.
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You
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I grew up in silence. This is what writing gave me.
The fence was too high, but ladders can be built from words
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Dear Future Self, I'm Still Afraid
Three exercises for writing against the grain and straight into the heart of fear
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The Thing That Would Postpone Our Deaths
The Power of Place | Week Five | A study in foreshadowing through doubled place-detail: revelation and concealment
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Three Songs At The End of Somewhere
The Power of Place | Week Four| What Magic When Place Conveys Emotion
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Writing Place as a Map of the Heart
The Power of Place | Week Three | Sometimes, landmarks are more than the sum of their parts
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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…
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