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Write A Catalyst

3 Strategies for Using Personal Stories to Advocate for Systemic Change

Make the system you want to change the setting for your story

Oct 7

3 Strategies for Using Personal Stories to Advocate for Systemic Change

Oct 7

Lauren Slagter

Finding Hope on the Screen of an Insulin Controller

On trusting God and medical technology to adjust to a new normal with Type 1 Diabetes

Oct 1

Finding Hope on the Screen of an Insulin Controller

Oct 1

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Practice in Public

Why I Recommend Taking Writing Prompts from Poetry

This approach has opened up my writing in fun and unexpected ways

Sep 23

Why I Recommend Taking Writing Prompts from Poetry

Sep 23

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Human Parts

Carrying Grief and Gratitude through the End of Summer

You can’t have it all, but you can have sweetness and sorrow in abundance

Sep 12

Rainbow over the pine trees on Drummond Island, Michigan

Sep 12

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August in the Books

Higher ed and classism, wild women of rural Michigan, and the thrill of a thriller

Aug 31

August in the Books

Aug 31

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July in the Books

I got to know Dorian Gray, Jennette McCurdy, the poetry of St. Lucia, and why The Bluest Eye is on so many banned book lists

Aug 3

July in the Books

Aug 3

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Why Aren’t You Writing More?

How a virtual writing group can help cure your writer’s block

Aug 2

Why Aren’t You Writing More?

Aug 2

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The Writer’s Way

Is Fear an Essential Part of the Creative Process?

What writing has taught me about confronting fear head-on

Jul 16

Is Fear an Essential Part of the Creative Process?

Jul 16

Lauren Slagter

Why Personal Narratives are so Persuasive — and How to Make Your Narrative Especially Compelling

What science and literature tell us about crafting persuasive narratives

Jul 11

Scrabble tiles that spell out: People remember stories

Jul 11

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Run With Intention

A 26.2 Mile Path of Love

On finding motivation beyond mile splits for the Detroit Free Press Marathon

Jul 10

A 26.2 Mile Path of Love

Jul 10

Lauren Slagter

Lauren Slagter

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Social impact communications strategist | Interested in poverty alleviation, creative practices & the Fourth Estate | Join my writing group: laurenslagter.com

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