The List Essay: A Brevity Blog Round Up

By Andrea A. Firth

Last week I attended a virtual meet up led by Suleika Jaouad and Elizabeth Gilbert—a celebratory pre-launch event for Jaouad’s new release, The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life.  A fun gathering of thousands of readers, writers and creatives that included prompts, kind of like virtual appetizers. Gilbert (the author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear) got us started. She framed her prompt as if you were writing a letter...