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"we need to make decisions for the people we are, not the people we aspire to be one day"
Decision Coach Nell Wulfhart solves all our writing problems, from changing careers to deciding what to write next
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Nancy Reddy
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"Learn to embrace small bursts of creativity"
SAD GROWNUPS author Amy Stuber on being a debut writer at 55, learning to write for the joy of it, and breaking away from ideas of perfection in…
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Nancy Reddy
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how to make space for the big mess of a new writing project
or, writing through the messiness of real life
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September 2024

how to embrace your "grand, spectacular failures"--and rewrite a whole novel on deadline
poet and novelist Rebecca Stafford, author of RABBIT & JULIET, on using the "but and therefore" rule to redraft a book in just eleven weeks
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Nancy Reddy
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what did you FINISH this month?
This September, we’ve been focusing on FINISHING WHAT WE STARTED—and I’m writing now to check in with you all.
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"The mother-artist is a great ghost."
poet and nature photographer Violeta Garcia-Mendoza on the invisibility of writing and mothering and her first book, SONGS FOR THE LAND-BOUND
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Nancy Reddy
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do you have a tricky decision to make in your writing life? get advice from DECISION COACH Nell Wulfhart!
Hello, all!
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Nancy Reddy
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three steps to finish what we started this fall
highlights from the fall planning party, featuring The Magic of One Thing, plus lots more resources for a productive and joyful season of writing
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join us for a 🥳️fall planning party🥳️ on Sunday, September 8, from 2-3 pm eastern
how to FINISH WHAT WE STARTED this fall, whether it's a poem, an essay, a pitch, that email to an editor you've been avoiding, or an entire book
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August 2024

how we finish what we started
a fall 🥳️planning party🥳️, featuring the magic of One Thing, on Sunday, September 8th at 2pm eastern
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Nancy Reddy
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let's chat: what rituals and routines do you have in your writing life?
I’ll do a longer piece on this soon, but first, I want to hear from you all.
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Nancy Reddy
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"I became a mother and realized that life was happening now."
CORE SAMPLES author and climate scientist Anna Farro Henderson on "inefficient efficiency" in writing (🎉and scroll down to the bottom to enter to win…
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Anna Farro Henderson
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