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A mermaid in search of her voice
My life changed completely when I read The Little Mermaid. Old enough to have my first understanding of the story come from an illustrated book rather…
Sep 23
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The Short Memory of Writer Me
and the Short Patience of Reader Me
Sep 9
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Cleaving yourself out for a new delight
How to invite the emotions in, whatever they might be
Sep 1
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August 2023
Recovering Agency: how to stop Noping out
It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these. Every time I started, I’d pull out the excuse box: Hectic at work. Too busy having IRL fun. These days…
Aug 26
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April 2023
On being a chronic intermediate
Or, how I justify not being great at anything.
Apr 2
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December 2022
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sep 3, 2022
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August 2022
One Reader is Enough
Or, lessons in divine writerly patience from Tiān Guān Cì Fú
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
Jul 23, 2022
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