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🎉celebrating three years of writing more together with a little giveaway, plus setting priorities for your writing life in April 🎉
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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…
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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…
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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
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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…
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the recovery is as important as the work
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whatever you can do is good enough
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"though my writing time decreased, my imagination bloomed"
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how to become a real writer
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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 …
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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Write More, Be Less Careful
Write More, Be Less Careful
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