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The journey, not the destination (Yeah, right!)
Persistence: firm or obstinate continuance in a course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition Another whirlwind week on the writing/campaign journey, and the parallels continue to astound me. As any writer knows, persistence is key to this life we’ve chosen. Persistence to actually finish a piece, whether it’s a poem, flash fiction, or a…
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Parallel journeys: writing and politics
As an introverted (if opinionated) writer, I have never imagined myself taking the bizarre leap I was offered this week. Of course, I said that about teaching, too, and I’ve been doing that for seven years now. But this is different: I took out petitions to run for political office. And not just local school…
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Maybe I’m not alone…
As I struggle to find my too-long-absent writing life, this post appears in my Facebook feed today. When the mind is ready… via Writing is Everything
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On Not Writing
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: Happy children! Loud happy children! This is the blog post I didn’t write because it was a terrible idea. So why even start? This is the blog post I didn’t write because the ceiling was leaking. This is the post I didn’t write because I couldn’t figure out the…
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The Forest for the Trees
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: There’s a story in there somewhere… I’ve been querying a book and it has not been going well. I had a few requests from conference meetings and Twitter pitchfests, but in the actual emailing-agents-I’ve-never-met process, I was just not getting the response I hoped for. This was deeply puzzling.…
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A Response to Jia Tolentino’s “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over”
Originally posted on The Brevity Blog: By Zoë Bossiere A couple of weeks ago, a piece by Jia Tolentino came out in The New Yorker called “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over.” The title alone was enough to deluge social media feeds with writers stepping forward to defend the vitality of the personal essay in spite…
CL Pauwels at Large 