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Oct 9, 2021

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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…

Dec 17, 2022

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…

Nov 13, 2022

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…

Oct 29, 2022

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…

Sep 24, 2022

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…

Sep 3, 2022

Or, lessons in divine writerly patience from Tiān Guān Cì Fú

Aug 6, 2022

Or, how to keep the spark alive in the years it takes to write a novel

Jul 23, 2022

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