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Thank you to everyone who came out to Strangelove’s on Friday! Thank you to the bartender who sweetly gave my kid a Shirley Temple on the house! And…
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Does it exist? What does it look like? Trying to figure it out by Friday...
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One of the reasons I began documenting this novel project is that I barely remember anything about the creation process for my first two manuscripts…
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I said last week that, as I see it, my main job is to be the person I need to be to write the story I want to write. This is something that is true for…
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Once, in Vermont, I went on a run on a wooded path that I was certain, having looked at it on a map ahead of time, was shaped like an oval and roughly a…
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Last week I mentioned that I recently made a decision about the narrator’s backstory, but I find I’m actually still waffling. Every time I think I’ve…
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It doesn’t feel totally real yet, but my first writing Friday is in the books. Literally! I knew I wouldn’t be able to sit in one place and produce…
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The routine is in flux. It has been for almost two years, since my kid was born. The pandemic didn’t help, but it would have been this way anyway. I…
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My writing goals for 2022
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I’ve mentioned that in addition to my current novel project, I’ve been working on a nonfiction manuscript about my 2019 birth injury and postpartum…
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To read: An excerpt from Ilya Kaminsky’s “Deaf Republic” To donate, if able: The International Rescue Committee More ways to help: Real Ways You Can…
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Hey! If you will be in Philadelphia around AWP, I will be reading with a boatload (barload?) of amazing writers at Strangelove’s on Friday, March 25th…
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