Archive - Why Be Happy When You Could Be Writing

The Writing Pause

On creation, solitude, and the panic of the aging artist

Dec 31, 2023 •

April 2023

It's Okay to Love the Moon

In defense of common images in literature

Apr 27, 2023 •

Time Enough at Last

The seductive, dangerous dream of more space for the creative

Apr 7, 2023 •

January 2023

How to Write In the Dead Ass Midwinter

Skip this if you just love January

Jan 23, 2023 •

July 2022

The Library Keeps Making Me Cry

On Nostalgia and Writing Toward Mystery

Jul 7, 2022 •

January 2022

The Ghost is You

On Trying to Write During a Pandemic

Jan 31, 2022 •

Learning to See Double

On Taking an Imagination Walk to Generate Fiction

Jan 19, 2022 •

November 2021

On Living Influence

And then, living without it

Nov 27, 2021 •

September 2021

Breaking the Spell of Silence

Why We Need More Writing About Infertility

Sep 2, 2021 •

July 2021

On Writing Toward the Insignificant

Writing about big things by going smaller

Jul 21, 2021 •

June 2021

Against Mythologizing the Practice of Writing

When the Dream Derails the Process

Jun 10, 2021 •

May 2021

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Not Writing

It’s a lifestyle choice, really

May 9, 2021 •

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