Thoughts on writing and life for April 2025

Finding the courage to write, and finding courage in what we write

This is an edited excerpt from my April 2025 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.

I’ve been reading a lot of memoirs lately, and what has struck me is the courage it must have taken for these people to write the truth about what they experienced—sometimes at the hands of people whom they loved but who didn’t love them ba...