Just How Do You Write with Vulnerability?
I’m teaching a class with Memoir Nation this Tuesday on Writing with Vulnerability. I think it is the crucial topic for any writer.
Intimations: A Writer's Discourse
How we write is how we live. And how we live is how we write. A dose of creative writing for the soul.
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The Sentence Has Wishes as It Decides
I wonder how a painter brushes the first brush of a painting.
Writing the Hard Thing
I always say it’s a writer’s duty to be vulnerable on the page, to write about taboos, to spelunk into the darkness, unearth the dead—whatever it takes to write this nettlesome, knotty, slippery, sharp thing known as the truth.
The Road Trip: The Story of Who We Are
On the literary history and human need to move
Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story
“Every love story is a ghost story.”
The Book of Lists
Lists as prompts, lists as stories, lists as poems
Another Word for Freedom
Last week, I had one of my most significant weeks as a writer and a teacher.
Trauma: The Splintered Narrative
When the story breaks: writing the shape of truth
Who Was Your Father Before He Was Your Father
On searching for lost stories
Does Creativity Deepen with Age?
One of the indignities of aging is that your body literally starts to shrink.