What are you excited to work on with your writing this year,...

What are you excited to work on with your writing this year, Wrimos? Author Matthew Salesses’s Pep Talk from this past November encourages you to delve deep into the feelings that make you want to write. Read the full Pep Talk here!

Image description: A blue background with illustrated yellow flowers, with text that reads: “Where else can we meet our innermost thoughts and fears and desires but in stories? …And how wonderful that meeting is—and how hard—how hard to really sit with and honor those feelings when so much of life says, ‘this is not the place for that.’” —Matthew Salesses

Matthew Salesses is the author of four novels, the most recent of which will be published in January 2023—The Sense of Wonder, about the first Asian American basketball star—and one book about writing fiction, Craft in the Real World. He was adopted from Korea and lives in New York City, where he teaches fiction writing at Columbia University.