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On using a character's birth chart as a writing constraint
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I’m writing and reading every day, but barely, because I am also unpacking and settling, and that’s okay. Two pages of Magda Szabó’s The Door before…
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My writing goals for 2022
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I know what the novel needs next, which is for me to go back to my old Scrivener file and untangle all the pieces, but it won’t happen until January. We…
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This week I had the same epiphany I apparently had in March, but it still feels like progress.
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Returning to an old short story to unlock something in the novel
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Are you a writer, too?TNN’s first discussion thread! Tell me — are you a writer, too? What are you working on, and where can people find you online if they want to le…
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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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When I first started trying to write novels, I never researched. I think I was too afraid of falling into an internet rabbit hole and “wasting” “time…
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On Wednesday, I started over. I opened a blank Scrivener file and started at the beginning. I’d spent too long trying to figure out a way back into this…
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One send-off for a short story, another send-off for myself, back into the murky world of the work in progress
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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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