Archive - Intimations: A Writer's Discourse

The story of my new book

Writing to photos inspired a different kind of storytelling.

Jul 13 •

Reclaiming your story

Hell is other people’s stories (or mis-stories) about us.

Jul 6 •

June 2025

The biggest question of all: Does your story matter?

There are certain writing truisms that I repeat and repeat and repeat because I believe in them so deeply.

Jun 29 •

It's time to play. Seriously.

Or yalp if you want.

Jun 22 •

A Writer’s Voice

The discovery of self

Jun 15 •

Confession as Storytelling, Part Two

The lie that is the story of the self

Jun 8 •

Confession as Storytelling, Part One

Writing for "huge blood-dripping gobbets of unseasoned experience"

Jun 1 •

May 2025

Small Things that Illuminate Big Spaces

A grab bag of snippets from "The Art of Brevity" to celebrate its birthday

May 25 •

Carpe diem the crap out of every single moment?

Urgency, glimmers, memorable moments, mortality

May 18 •

Slipping ... with Lidia Yuknavitch

Reframing stories and shifting shapes to claim and reclaim yourself

May 11 •

Launching something big: Memoir Nation

Find yourself in your life story.

May 4 •

April 2025

Creativity as an Act of Defiance

Get on your motorcycle and do a wheelie.

Apr 27 •

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