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Apr 28, 2024
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How Writing a Book Is Like Building a Holy Shrine
A holy monument, like a book, is built with hope, faith, and devotion over a long expanse of time.
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When Our Influences Author Us
None of us is a single self.
Sep 27
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What creative type are you?
Dec 10, 2023
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Somebody Somewhere
Dec 22, 2024
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This is 60: Creativity in the Third Act
Jan 5, 2025
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Because it's my birthday: A wacky year in review
Dec 28, 2025
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Authors Earn Too Much Money
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The heart (and art) of helplessness
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My San Francisco: A Love Letter to the Education of a Writer
I recently did a book event at the mysterious, magical, boozy, erudite, cool-cool-cool Clio’s, and I told a story about how the first night I arrived in…
Sep 20
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Novel Knots. Memoir Knots. Book Knots. NOTs.
A friend of mine recently told me that her novel was tied in a knot.
Sep 13
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What Is Your Definition of Carpe Diem?
First Dolly.
Sep 6
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Where the Hell Are the Men?
I recently taught a class with Memoir Nation, “Writing with Vulnerability,” a class that’s very dear to me because I think our ability to be vulnerable…
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The Crow: My New Creative Guide
I have a love affair with crows.
Aug 23
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Just How Do You Write with Vulnerability?
I’m teaching a class with Memoir Nation this Tuesday on Writing with Vulnerability. I think it is the crucial topic for any writer.
Aug 16
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The Sentence Has Wishes as It Decides
I wonder how a painter brushes the first brush of a painting.
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