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It's Okay to Love the Moon
In defense of common images in literature
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Time Enough at Last
The seductive, dangerous dream of more space for the creative
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11
January 2023
How to Write In the Dead Ass Midwinter
Skip this if you just love January
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July 2022
The Library Keeps Making Me Cry
On Nostalgia and Writing Toward Mystery
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January 2022
The Ghost is You
On Trying to Write During a Pandemic
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Learning to See Double
On Taking an Imagination Walk to Generate Fiction
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Amber Sparks
November 2021
On Living Influence
And then, living without it
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Amber Sparks
September 2021
Breaking the Spell of Silence
Why We Need More Writing About Infertility
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Amber Sparks
July 2021
On Writing Toward the Insignificant
Writing about big things by going smaller
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June 2021
Against Mythologizing the Practice of Writing
When the Dream Derails the Process
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May 2021
Thirteen Ways of Looking at Not Writing
It’s a lifestyle choice, really
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Useless observations about writing that will not help you
Welcome to Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing by me, Amber Sparks. Amber Sparks is the author of three short story collections and an upcoming…
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