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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 BREVITY's Nonfiction 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 Forest for the Trees
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction 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… -
A Response to Jia Tolentino’s “The Personal-Essay Boom is Over”
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction 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… -
Paradigm shift alert – for this site and for my life
I’ve moved this from my home page where it was originally posted February 1, 2017. The standard wisdom in the publishing world is for authors to avoid controversial topics on their websites and social media for fear of alienating potential readers. I’ve debated that subject in other venues and I’m finally done talking about it. […]
CL Pauwels at Large 