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how to start with a dress and end with a poem
poet Karen Rigby on using art, from paintings to figure skating and fashion, to inspire the poems in her new book FABULOSA
Jul 23
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"I’ve had to fight for this time but also accept that what’s possible shifts from season to season."
poet and professor Bronwen Tate on the "beautiful exhaustion" of life with small children and how her daughter's artwork reminds her that "ideas come in…
Jul 18
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"my kids are expanding my sense of possibility for how to be in the universe, and that can only be good for my writing."
writers Alyse Knorr and Kate Partridge on the wonder and boredom of little kids, and why their "unsexy" plan for dividing time is actually the key to…
Jul 16
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"my kids are expanding my sense of possibility for how to be in the universe, and that can only be good for my writing."
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3 questions for the center of the year
reflecting on the year so far in writing and strategies for writing through the fractured time of summer, plus discount codes for the Writing Co-Lab's…
Jun 30
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"Taking care of my child has unequivocally made me a better, more deeply feeling and acutely perceiving person."
BRUTALITIES author Margo Steines on leaving the house to switch into her creative brain and becoming more ambitious in her career since becoming a…
Jun 27
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"Taking care of my child has unequivocally made me a better, more deeply feeling and acutely perceiving person."
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"Caregiving has completely quieted the angsty existential questions I had in my 20s."
Jun 20
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the recovery is as important as the work
Jul 30, 2023
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"you need less time to write a book than you think"
Jun 25
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whatever you can do is good enough
Mar 5
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"you need less time to write a book than you think"
novelist Katharine Schellman on planning and setting the bar low as a way to get a ton of writing done
Jun 25
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"Caregiving has completely quieted the angsty existential questions I had in my 20s."
Catherine Newman, author of SANDWICH and WE ALL WANT IMPOSSIBLE THINGS, on the model of "utter graciousness" her mother provided and collecting tidbits…
Jun 20
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"writing this book has made me a better parent, because I have had to really think hard about issues that were pretty invisible to me…
BOYMOM author Ruth Whippman, on how the "weirdly freeing" "loss of selfhood" she experienced in motherhood helped her become a writer
Jun 13
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"writing this book has made me a better parent, because I have had to really think hard about issues that were pretty invisible to me before"
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“The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica”: How to Maintain a Lifelong Writing Practice
Sara Lippman of the Writing Co-Lab on "candid strategies for perseverance"
Jun 11
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"becoming a mother not only provided me with the gift of having something to say, but the confidence to share my words with others."
memoirist Barrie Miskin on how motherhood gave her both a story she needed to tell and the confidence she needed to become a writer
Jun 6
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"Caregiving forces you to look away, to look up and out, to understand that nothing we do is in isolation."
The Leaving Season author Kelly McMasters on the classroom as a space of creativity, the first person to give her a journal, and a perfect writing…
May 30
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"Caregiving forces you to look away, to look up and out, to understand that nothing we do is in isolation."
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"intense tight-knit communities become this testing ground against which people are able to find out who they really are and who they are…
Housemates author Emma Copley Eisenberg on writing "housemates and roommates and strange uncategorizable friendships and mentorships," plus a writing…
May 28
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3 steps to plan your for productivity and rest in your writing life this summer
highlights from the summer planning party, plus 🎉 a cover and a pub date and a pre-order link for THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH! 🎉
May 26
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"I got used to letting myself make very small bits of mediocre progress just to keep the project moving forward"
Erin Zimmerman on writing her book while caring for baby twins and how parenting has put work success and failure in perspective
May 22
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Write More, Be Less Careful
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