Intimations: A Writer's Discourse

Intimations: A Writer's Discourse

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Writing with love

Musings on muses
Just what is a muse?
Nov 9 • 
Grant Faulkner
Writing the truth of past sins
How do we love a burning world?
Nov 2 • 
Grant Faulkner
Writing as prayer
Bridging the chasm between loneliness and a greater belonging
Oct 19 • 
Grant Faulkner
The secret (and sacred) land of crying
The art of wailing ... it’s almost impossible to represent crying on the page, isn’t it?
Sep 28 • 
Grant Faulkner
On Grace
A word that is full of layers, nuances, contradictions.
Sep 21 • 
Grant Faulkner
Risking sentimentality
“If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane.”
Sep 14 • 
Grant Faulkner
The heart (and art) of helplessness
Confessions from the operating table
Aug 31 • 
Grant Faulkner
the sound of us trying
It's the reaching that matters.
Aug 17 • 
Grant Faulkner
On loss and longing
The constant collision between wishes and reality forms the heartbeat of our stories.
Aug 10 • 
Grant Faulkner
An Ode to Letter Writing
Being with another "without their corporeal self"
Jul 20 • 
Grant Faulkner
Reclaiming your story
Hell is other people’s stories (or mis-stories) about us.
Jul 6 • 
Grant Faulkner
Confession as Storytelling, Part One
Writing for "huge blood-dripping gobbets of unseasoned experience"
Jun 1 • 
Grant Faulkner
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