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When Is the Right Time to Write Memoir?
How long should you “wait”?
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Writing Cairn by Cairn
Forget Doctorow’s headlights
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Write as You Hike
Kinetic work
We headed out to hike this past week, pitching our tent in the exact place we…
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Using Your Table of Contents for Structure and Pacing in Your Novel
A post first draft check-in point
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The Naming of a Publication
When writer-friends put their heads together
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How to Work With Internal and External Character Goals When Writing Fiction
And the pacing that emerges
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Finding Solid Writing Books is Key to Self-Educating
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Dorothea Brande, and Rita…
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Writing the Collection of Connected Short Stories
And “Why not a novel?”
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Gossip and the Writer
Does it have a place?
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Quantity and/or Quality in Daily Writing
Revisiting Dorothea Brande’s idea of “20 minutes EVERY day”
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Learning about writing—for joy, even in the struggle to attach words-to-page. No content machines here. Fiction and nonfiction, poetry and writing for children and young people. In lieu of an MFA from some writing program.
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