Book Writing Diaries
book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia discovers what it means to be a literary citizen and shares how championing fellow writers' books has deepened her own writing life.
September 10, 2026 Journal
Book Writing Diaries
book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia on why holding onto a compliment can be just as hard, and just as important, as accepting the critique.
July 09, 2026
Book Writing Diaries
Memoir Incubator PAL Michele Cantos Garcia traces her journey to becoming a “real” writer while writing at coffee shops, eventually becoming a barista.
November 13, 2025
Book Writing Diaries
book inc PAL Michele Cantos chronicles the elaborate procrastination rituals we create to avoid reading our manuscripts.
July 31, 2025
Book Writing Diaries
book inc PAL Michele Cantos discovers that incorporating humor into difficult personal stories provides emotional relief during writing. Bonus, humor makes characters more multidimensional and narrati...
June 12, 2025
Book Writing Diaries
book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia chronicles her yearlong journey through the Memoir Incubator, detailing the emotional highs and lows of crafting a personal memoir.
May 08, 2025
Book Writing Diaries
book inc writer Michele Cantos explains how writing her memoir about her family's immigrant journey led unexpectedly to a parallel creative awakening as she found refuge in writing a novel.
February 27, 2025
Book Writing Diaries
After leaving Brooklyn for New Jersey, book inc PAL Michele Cantos Garcia found the community she needed to finally complete her memoir about her undocumented family's journey.
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