The Writing Life

Imposters, Insiders, and Interlopers: Amy Rowland on Writing About Rural America

“It doesn’t matter if you’re worthy of doing it. It matters that it’s worthy of doing.”

 
By Amy Rowland  July 13, 2023
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On the Dangers of Teaching and Writing at the Same Time

By Christina Lynch  June 28, 2023
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The Most Important Formerly Homeless American Writer Needs Help

By Dan Simon  June 5, 2023
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“It’s Not All Over…” On Persisting in Writing and in Life

By Mark Ernest Pothier  May 3, 2023
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Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much… Or Not Enough?

By Tobias Carroll  April 21, 2023
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The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

By Blair Hurley  April 17, 2023
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I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
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Ling Ling Huang on the Similarities Between Classical Music and Fiction Writing

By Ling Ling Huang  April 10, 2023
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Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

By Jane Roper  April 7, 2023
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Ann Napolitano: Offer Yourself Grace When the Writing is Hard

By Ann Napolitano  March 15, 2023
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Donal Ryan on Mourning the Death of an Unpublishable Novel

By Donal Ryan  February 28, 2023
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It Happened To Me: On Being Totally Unproductive at a Writing Residency

By Alice Robb  February 27, 2023
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What Makes Writing Valuable?

By William Pierce  December 16, 2022
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How Do You Know If Your Short Story Should Be a Novel?

By Bill Cotter  December 15, 2022
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Moriel Rothman-Zecher on the Magic of Writing at Sunrise

By Moriel Rothman-Zecher  December 14, 2022
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How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life

By Brigitta Olubas  November 15, 2022
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“Maybe Broccoli Doesn’t Like You Either” (Lot 151) On the Allure of Joan Didion’s Objects

By Mary Kate Frank  November 15, 2022
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Full Disclosure: Meghan J. Ward on Marriage, Motherhood, and Weighing the Truth in Memoir

By Meghan J. Ward  November 11, 2022
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“Let That Dream Die.“ On Watching Tennis and (Actually) Becoming the Best Writer You Can Be

By Veronica Roth  November 9, 2022
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The Best American Novelist to Disappear (And Come Back) Twice

By Helene Atwan  November 4, 2022
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The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

By Devoney Looser  October 25, 2022
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How Homesteading Helped Me Write

By Michelle Webster-Hein  October 11, 2022
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The Longest Retreat: Ryan Lee Wong on the Intersection of Writing, Meditating, and Community

By Ryan Lee Wong  October 4, 2022
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On Phone Sex, First Writing Jobs, and Unexpected Teachers

By Lynn Melnick  October 3, 2022
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Whose Lives Can We Plunder? Or: How to Base a Character on Yourself

By Jincy Willett  August 23, 2022
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