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On being a chronic intermediate
Or, how I justify not being great at anything.
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On choosing inspiration over shame
Year’s end always brings reckoning. My inbox is full of people taking stock: of their finances, of their families’ paths through this rocky year, of…
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Immediate, intimate, invisible: explorations in POV
I’m now on the fourth draft of a story I’ve been working on for the last few years. Once the characters, plot and theme stabilized, I did a round of…
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The thing you are most afraid to write
This quote by Nayyirah Waheed haunts me nearly every day: “The thing you are most afraid to write Write that.” Sometimes it’s the usual fears. What if…
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How did I not know Jane Austen was a vicious bitch?
All my life, I’ve thought of Jane Austen novels as the kind where women constrained by a society that won’t permit them any real adventures express…
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Can you write from real life without being a creep?
Honestly, if you’re an author, you’re probably always going to be something of a creep. You can’t help noticing things about other people that set them…
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One Reader is Enough
Or, lessons in divine writerly patience from Tiān Guān Cì Fú
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Adventures in writing, wandering and trying to change the world

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