Thoughts on writing and life for December 2024

Why I need to believe in the magic of writing

This is an edited excerpt from my December 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.

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In December, as I haul out my Christmas ornaments and hang up the stocking my parents bought for me decades ago (no, don’t ask how many decades, please!), I find myself believing in magic more strongly than any other tim...