# Marsh Mail

Author Sydney Hegele shares new work, book tour updates, writing tips, and the art of writing with dissociative identity disorder.

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## [I’m afraid, and I’m here](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/im-afraid-and-im-here)

_2024-05-05 · Sydney Hegele_

Losing language on a long, strange trip.

## [Kept promises are key to novel writing— and to trauma therapy](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/kept-promises-are-key-to-novel-writing)

_2023-07-20 · Sydney Hegele_

Building trust with my readers and with my alters has been a similar experience

## [On both being and not being an author](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/on-both-being-and-not-being-an-author)

_2023-06-13 · Sydney Hegele_

Writing vs authoring & Guest Letter # 1

## [Editing is shift work. So is living.](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/editing-is-shift-work-so-is-living)

_2023-05-11 · Sydney Hegele_

Grocery store checkouts and the craft of splitting tasks (and selves).

## [The First Martyr](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/the-first-martyr)

_2023-04-27 · Sydney Hegele_

Grateful Dead lore, biblical inconsistencies, and writing for all of me.

## [Seek and ye shall find (something different)](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/seek-and-ye-shall-find-something)

_2023-04-16 · Sydney Hegele_

Good girls, essay expectations, and the craft of curiosity

## [Not the right piece for us](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/not-the-right-piece-for-us)

_2023-03-21 · Sydney Hegele_

Rejection, expectation, and subjectivity in writing submissions

## [Everything you need to know about the Canada Council for the Arts Research & Creation Grant (literary works for publication)](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about)

_2023-03-08 · Sydney Hegele_

Budgets, project descriptions, and the art of getting paid to write a book

## [A Co-Writing Multitude Container](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/a-co-writing-multitude-container)

_2023-02-19 · Sydney Hegele_

Answering my most FAQ about dissociative identity disorder (DID)

## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6b94r93Mr7x0)

_2023-02-19 · **Sponsored**_

Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant.

## [A small, but important update](https://sydneyhegele.substack.com/p/a-small-but-important-update)

_2023-02-16 · Sydney Hegele_

I'm teaching Intro to Writing the Short Story: An 8-Week Remote Course