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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…
Anat Deracine
Dec 17, 2022
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November 2022
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…
Anat Deracine
Nov 13, 2022
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October 2022
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…
Anat Deracine
Oct 29, 2022
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September 2022
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…
Anat Deracine
Sep 24, 2022
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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…
Anat Deracine
Sep 3, 2022
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August 2022
One Reader is Enough
Or, lessons in divine writerly patience from Tiān Guān Cì Fú
Anat Deracine
Aug 6, 2022
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July 2022
How to marry your book
Or, how to keep the spark alive in the years it takes to write a novel
Anat Deracine
Jul 23, 2022
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Writer Mania
Or, that other extreme of writer's block
Anat Deracine
Jul 3, 2022
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May 2022
Why (and how) I went from pantsing to plotting
Nearly every writer I’ve ever met is a ‘pantser,’ preferring to plot by the seat of their pants, rather than a ‘plotter’ who knows how their story will…
Anat Deracine
May 28, 2022
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Priority. Necessity. Practice.
If you don't take your writing seriously, nobody else will
Anat Deracine
May 7, 2022
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April 2022
A metaphor too many
On avoiding purple prose
Anat Deracine
Apr 16, 2022
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The danger of a dominant frame of reference
We are, many of us, aware of the danger of a single story, of a single representation defining and confining us to stereotypes. When we see diversity…
Anat Deracine
Apr 2, 2022
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