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Thoughts on writing and life for August 2024

Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it.

This is an edited excerpt from my August 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

This is a big month for me in my literary life. August marks the twentieth birthday of my first book, THE GIFTS OF CHANGE—an event that, while it didn’t make me rich and famous, did officially make me an author. And th...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 8.7.24

Words for writers from Pearl S. Buck

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.31.24

Words for writers from Margaret Atwood

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.24.24

Words for writers from Jennifer Eagan

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Tuesday’s Tips: 10 Tips for Bookstore Events

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We all have that fantasy: We’re doing a book signing at our favorite store and the line of customers waiting to meet us stretches out into the street and our hand gets a cramp from signing our name inside the book over and over and over again.

But for most of us, our book signing events go something like this:

We get to the store and there’s a table set up for us that may or may not have a sign announcing our appearance and may or may not have a stack of books...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.17.24

Words for writers from Ann Patchett

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Thoughts on writing and life for July 2024

Just a few thoughts on how important it is to “unpack” your brain from one book project before you start on another.

This is an edited excerpt from my July 2024 newsletter, The Writing Life. (Subscribe here.)

You can also listen to it on my Living the Writing Life podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.

The photo to the right was intended to be humorous, but the more I looked at it, the more I realized that it wasn’t just the suitcase that needed to be unpacked. It was also my mind.

Here is...

Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.10.24

Words for writers from Margaret Atwood

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 7.3.24

Words for writers from Mavis Gallant

 

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Wednesday Writing Inspiration for 6.26.24

Words for writers from M. Night Shyamalan

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