"Writing well is a matter of figuring out what obsesses you," my professor in grad school William Kittredge told me. Out of all …
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Collect Life’s Details for Your Writing
One exercise I did while in grad school helped me learn to pay better attention to the world around me, and I wanted to review it …
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Crowd-Source Your Research When You Write
Social media taught me that I’m not as smart as I thought. In fact, name any subject and someone knows more about it …
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Getting a Book Deal
I’m writing this post because there’s an unspoken rule made for writers like me, who are interested in how to get a book deal, …