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06/16/22 Getting It Done
I had an uncle who had a Friday night date and a Saturday night date. Neither knew about the other. Sometimes I feel like my two-timing uncle when it comes to writing. I have two book projects going o...
05/09/22 Inside the Memoir Incubator
For the first three months in the Memoir Incubator, we didn’t write. Not the way I’m accustomed to writing, typing scenes into a computer. Instead, we worked in journals, exploring our story’s s...
05/05/22 Trust the Process
Last night on Zoom, we did a writing exercise exploring Act I of our novels, spending five minutes writing down our beats—the turning points that mark the arc of our stories. Our objective was to...
03/17/22 Inside the Memoir Incubator
When a friend suggested I join book inc's Memoir Incubator, I was hesitant. Not because I didn’t want to write a memoir, but because I was afraid. Afraid I would fail … again. You see, I had already...
03/03/22 Trust the Process
I’d been writing novels for years. I’ve gone to writing workshops, earned an MFA, and even had the incredible experience of doing a novel fellowship with a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Still, I...
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