How to Keep Writing When You’re Convinced Your Book Is a Disaster
When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.
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When feeling beaten by your manuscript, come back to the page with humility and curiosity, and remember the ways that this work feeds you.
Time well-spent in grad school means “learning to labor in language in such a way that you’ve made yourself worthy of the next labor.”
Find your social buoys, practice your talking points, and if all else fails, return to the topic of shoes.
An introduction to three new anthologies, including The People’s Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward and Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color.
Faculty, program type, format, and size are just a few of factors to consider when finding a school that suits who you are as a writer.
Keep it simple, or do like Nora Ephron and consider what defines you.
Your internet obsessions can become your writing’s obsessions; allow those passions to animate your book.
Monthly deliveries of a perfect roast, strongly brewed, may be nearly as important as the companion who introduces them to you.
An agent with twenty years of experience selling foreign rights on both sides of the Atlantic unpacks what can appear to be a complicated and unfamiliar aspect of book publishing.
A writing degree’s worth lies in early readers met, sacred hours at the desk, life-changing books, and deep community.