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🎉celebrating three years of writing more together with a little giveaway, plus setting priorities for your writing life in April 🎉
Mar 31
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Writing & Revising Poems from Your Body (Not Your Brain)
poet, graphic designer, and writing coach Lindsay Lusby on how writing and revising lives in our bodies, finding the right form for your poems, and…
Apr 17
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Nancy Reddy
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"Now, I understand how precious my creative time is--and how fleeting."
writer and speaker Mary Joan Cunningham on prioritizing self-care after an MS diagnosis and how becoming a mother inspired "focus and an intense drive…
Apr 11
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Nancy Reddy
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"Becoming a caregiver breaks open your brain in brand new ways."
bestselling author and podcaster Jo Piazza on becoming "painfully efficient" in her creative life after having kids
Mar 28
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Nancy Reddy
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start with curiosity: approaches to research in creative writing
searching for women's lives around the margins of the scholarship, methods for organizing research, and three opportunities to write together this…
Mar 27
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Nancy Reddy
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the recovery is as important as the work
Jul 30, 2023
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Nancy Reddy
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whatever you can do is good enough
Mar 5
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Nancy Reddy
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"though my writing time decreased, my imagination bloomed"
Nov 30, 2023
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how to become a real writer
Sep 24, 2023
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Nancy Reddy
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let's chat: your best writing productivity tip
A writer shared a link a few weeks ago to an article titled “How to Have a More Productive Year,” and when I clicked through, it was this: When …
Mar 17
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"Becoming a mother has deepened my creativity, connecting me to the universal pain and joy of mothers everywhere, across continents and the…
novelist Meredith Jaeger on embracing her identity as both a mother and a creative, and the challenges of combining the unpaid labor of motherhood and…
Mar 14
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whatever you can do is good enough
how to keep writing when there's really no time to write + in-person and zoom options to write together this spring
Mar 5
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Nancy Reddy
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"I'm still a believer in using little cracks of time to write, wherever I may be"
The Age of Deer author Erika Howsare on changing her writing process as her kids grow and as she moves across genres
Feb 29
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Nancy Reddy
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"Her soft. Low voice. / Builds a replica in my throat."
a Little Loves prompt inspired by K. Iver's "Family of Origin Rewrite: 1982"and written by Eugenia Leigh
Feb 21
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Nancy Reddy
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"The time doesn’t magically appear. You have to make the time."
Sex Romp Gone Wrong author Julia Ridley Smith on creating characters with mixed emotions, using her observant writer's eye, and making everyone in your…
Feb 15
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a poet learns to pitch (and you can, too!)
everything I know about pitching (essays, not baseballs) + lots of links and resources
Feb 7
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Nancy Reddy
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"Writing deeply vulnerable poems about my own OCD was uncharted territory. Framing the project as memoir helped me see the road ahead."
poet Cynthia Marie Hoffman on writing a memoir in prose poems, plus tons of strategies for revising your own collection of poems
Jan 31
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Nancy Reddy
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"Writing deeply vulnerable poems about my own OCD was uncharted territory. Framing the project as memoir helped me see the road ahead."
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let's do a new year's do-over
how tools from narrative psychology can help reframe how you feel about your writing life, learning to ask for help, plus February intentions
Jan 28
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Nancy Reddy
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