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"Personal and specific, vulnerable and honest"

Outage

Hanging with writer friends counts as writing

On writing and mortality

Writing is a teacher

What Is Really Calling to You?

Letting Go of Hysteria

Thoughts on the Jewish New Year

Still here

I Still Do

Dear Writer

In brief

Hey!

Breaking my one rule of novel writing

Preparing for #1000WordsOfSummer

When writing is promoting is networking

"Imagination rules the world"

Getting unstuck

Ode to all my forgotten novel notes

Who's running the show?

When old places and people become new again

That scene you're afraid to write

Letting words guide us

Setting goals

What vegan cheese can teach us about writing

The great unknowns

A look that says it all

Where have all the ideas gone?

No expert

All the people in these pages

Preparing for liftoff

New-novel-blues busting

You have the pieces on the board; now play

The beginning, middle, and end, or what happens now?

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