I am learning how to say the words “I’m a writer” without effacing the words with a shoulder shrug or an apologetic smile…
WRITING LIFE: More Than I Dreamed Of, Barely Enough by Sara Petersen
Category: Writing Life
Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
WRITING LIFE: Accepting My Blindness As A Freelance Writer by Kerry Kijewski
I am barely six months into this whole freelance writing thing. So far I’ve learned it’s a struggle for nearly everyone who attempts it.
WRITING LIFE: Joan Didion and Me by Jennifer Mattson
One cannot talk about writing essay, without first talking about Joan Didion.
WRITING LIFE: Tame the Darkness: Managing Anxiety and Depression in Order to Write by Tiffany Sumner
It’s commonplace to assume the best writers struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma…
WRITING LIFE: “Real” Writers Doing “Real” Work by Rae Pagliarulo
For 10 years, I told myself I wasn’t a writer, but almost every single day, I wrote. What was holding me back? Why couldn’t I say the word?
The Writing Life: “Word-Hoard” by Stephen D. Barker
Wordhoard is an Anglo-Saxon epithet for the mind in the chest, seat of reason and emotion—we still speak of getting things off of our chests.
WRITING LIFE: Live to Tell, Tell to Live by Amy M. Miller
Most of my literary influences didn’t sound a thing like me. Virginia Woolf compulsively detailed upper crust London; David Sedaris laughed about his dysfunctional family…
WRITING LIFE: The Magic of ‘Big Magic’ by Abby Norman
I had a rather strange experience last week where, in the span of one day, three separate people recommended Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book to me. It wasn’t even a suggested reading type recommendation. It was a “stare deep in someone’s eyes and whisper, you have to read this book” type recommendation. I was hesitant because…
The Writing Life: Watching the Clock by Kelly Shire
When my two children were both old enough to attend school, I was excited by the prospect of solitude and the chance to finally return to writing.
The Writing Life: The Ghost Reader by Sharon Kurtzman, Guest Columnist
“They want writers to come,” said a friend about the ghosts that were rumored to haunt The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities in Southern Pines.
