As a student in high school and college, I was plagued by both perfectionism and procrastination…
WRITING LIFE: Teaching Myself to Revise by Tara DaPra
Category: Writing Life
Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
WRITING LIFE: Writing Out Loud by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
I was breathless from the emotions talking about a traumatic event triggered, from the thrill of having produced my longest essay thus far…
WRITING LIFE: Writing Home by Jamie Beth Cohen
Those of us who left our hometowns as teenagers often feel a pull to return. Sometimes it’s family, or an old flame, other times it’s the place itself…
WRITING LIFE: A Book or Something by Meghan Beaudry
What I remember most about being sick with brain inflammation is the stillness that stretched on for months.
WRITING LIFE: Where Worlds Collide – Writing and Yoga by Jennifer Lang
During my first MFA residency at Vermont College of Fine Arts, I sat spellbound in Barbara Hurd’s lecture on paradox.
WRITING LIFE: How to Write About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way by Yolande House
When I first started writing about my childhood physical and emotional abuse in 2006, I did almost everything wrong.
WRITING LIFE: Mining for Miracles by Tawni Waters
I’m hiding in a cabin in the woods right now. I told my friends and family I was going away for a few weeks, but it’s been a few months…
WRITING LIFE: When It’s Not About Time Management by Kimberly Coyle
When my daughter enters the game, I rest my pen, but my mind continues to wander.
WRITING LIFE: Living By Lists by Melissa D. Sullivan
I feel mighty, secure and invincible if I have my lists….
WRITING LIFE: Writing Partners – An Essay on Rhizomatic Being by Jeanette Brown
Some writing absolutely must be done alone. Hemingway said it perhaps most famously, but Kristina Moriconi gave the idea her own spin in this very column this past July.
