Intimations: A Writer's Discourse

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Sharing stories, sharing yourself
We’re living in an age of sharing—or perhaps of oversharing. We’re not just sharing our stories, we’re also often promoting ourselves, building a…
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Plotting without a plot, part two
In last week’s post, I talked about how flash fiction lessens the burden of plot and opens up stories to different shapes and possibilities. This week…
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Plotting without a plot
Part one of a two-part mystery about plot
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The study of kindness
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Plotting without a plot, part two
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Tiny Habits
I like to do the math of writing for writers. I will often conduct a 10-minute writing sprint, giving people a prompt and asking them to write with…
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Making things happen
Writing can be daunting, frustrating, and even frightening—yet then, somehow, magically fulfilling. Still … even with that wonderful fulfillment fueling…
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Revising a Difficult Novel
Every novel is difficult, of course. In last week’s newsletter, I mentioned that I’d tell the story of the difficult novel I just finished (or…
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The Story of a Difficult Novel
I just finished my final, final, final revision of my novel, The Letters (pictured above), so I’m pausing to reflect on the somewhat odd labyrinthian…
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Aesthetic as Lens to Life
Have you ever paused to define your aesthetic? I recently interviewed K-Ming Chang for Write-minded, and I was taken by the way she discussed how she…
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Ragpicker's delight: special grab bag edition
I come from a long line of collectors. Some of them have verged on being hoarders. There is certainly a thin line between being a hoarder and a…
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The art of "unlanguaging"
Writing beyond language to tell our truths
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Intimations: A Writer's Discourse
How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.
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