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“All This Okayness” and I Suddenly Can’t Write“Stop it and give yourself a chance.” Aaron T. Beck, father of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy “You can dance. You can jive.” ABBA...
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Nostalgia: Abigail Thomas Tries to Understand Her Reaction to Old WorkBy Abigail Thomas I have been looking through a mess of writing for a lost poem, and come across a story so old that the...
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Design Your Life Around Writing: An Interview with Guinevere TurnerGuinevere Turner Tamara MC interviews Guinevere Turner Turner is a screenwriter ( American Psycho , The Notorious Bettie Page...
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How Publishing My First Book Gave Me a New Appreciation for LibrariesBy Julie Vick The road to having your first book come out is filled with ups and downs. It’s like being on an amusement park...
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A Writer’s Ritual for RejectionNOT A GOOD FIT TAKING A DIFFERENT DIRECTION DON’T TAKE THIS REJECTION TO HEART THE TIMING ISN’T QUITE RIGHT NOT A...
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The Memoir-in-Pieces Says YesBy Beth Kephart Years ago, when I began to teach memoir at the University of Pennsylvania, I drew a conclusion I had not foreseen:...
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Red Flags for Writers: When Publishing Goes All WrongBy Lainy Carslaw This is not an easy story to tell. Mostly because it’s embarrassing and I’m ashamed of my stupidity. And also...
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Why I Write – Two Truths and a LieBy Alexander Forston I have no traditionally valuable skills; by this I refer to those that are...
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5 Things I’ve Learned from Writing (and Editing) Mental Health StoriesBy Katie Bannon Mental health is often branded “taboo” and, for writers of memoir and personal essay, these stories can be our most...
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Lucky Author SyndromeBy Sandra A. Miller When my friend Lisa and I received our MFAs in 1996, we both immediately scored New York literary agents with...
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The HoverBy Carolyn Roy-Bornstein When I retired at 65 and closed my medical practice, I looked forward to long stretches of time to write,...
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The Treachery of Wordsafter René Magritte By Kristina R. Gaddy This is not truth. It is my version of events. It is how I remember it...
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Witnessing the SelfBy Joanna Penn Cooper Faith is found here, not in a destiny raiding and parceling out knowledge and the earth, but in a people...
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Five Mental Health Tips for WritersBy Sweta Srivastava Vikram What’s common between Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allen Poe, Sylvia Plath, and F. Scott...
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What Stephen King Taught My Husband About WritingBy Marie F. Cahalane I looked busy—piano, interior design projects, laundry, Candy Crush Saga—but the swirl of activity I generated...
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Books are CompassesBy Shawna Kenney My first trip outside of the United States was a month-long backpacking trip in Europe. I’d saved money from many...
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How My Substack Bridged a Communication Gap With My MotherBy M. Tamara Cutler “Mich, I’m working on waste this morning,” my eighty-four-year-old mother announced when I walked into her...
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Writing With Your BreathBy Evan Youngs A Q&A WITH GAYLE BRANDEIS In her essay collection Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss...
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My Daughter Has an Intellectual Disability. Should I Be Allowed to Write Her Story?By Catherine Shields “I’m gonna write a story about you.” My thirty-year old daughter, Jessica, says this in her sing-song...
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On Witty Asides and Sly InsinuationsIn our May issue of Brevity , launched this past week, Jack Lancaster looks at works from Jia Tolentino Joan Didion, and Zadie Smith to...
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The Secret ClassHow to make regular writing a given. By Julie Marie Wade Whether you’re a writer just beginning to submit work for...
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Negotiating the Writer Editor Relationship SuccessfullyIn our May issue of Brevity , launched this past week, Amanda Le Rougetel reminds us that the writer/editor relationship, when...
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Flash Essays as FireworksIn our May issue of Brevity , fresh this week, Leslie Jill Patterson uses examples from Brenda Miller, Jenny Boully, Erin Murphy...
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Research and Memoir: Toggling Between Yourself and World, Part 2By Jody Keisner A Q&A WITH MINNA DUBIN, SOFIA ALI-KAHN, and ERICA BERRY Sofia Ali-Kahn Here is the second...
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Finding Heart Through American IdolBy Rebecca Francesca Reuter Puerto I am watching American Idol intently this season. My heart has been captured by one of the...
