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Past Newsletters
- Adventures in Ermaland
- For the Love of Modern Love: Author Melanie Bishop
- Dani Shapiro Sheds Light on Memoirs, Novels, and the Writing Life
- The Case for the Holiday Letter
- How to Write About What Haunts You
- Tiny Love Story Success!
- Should You Use a Pen Name?
- An Open Chat with Screenwriter Kelly Fremon Craig
- Commenters: The Good, The Bad, and The Battle Scars
- For the Love of Memoir
- How to Write with Gratitude
- Writing About the Unthinkable with Amy McHugh
- Writing the Personal Essay: 8 Common Mistakes to Avoid
- A Decade in the Making
- How Letter Writing Can Be a Springboard for Essays
- Reconsidering the Digital Journal
- What Dreams May Come?
- How to Use Your Journal to Craft Salable Essays
- Prioritizing Passion
- When the Holidays Aren’t All Joy, Celebration, and Laughter
- “I Made You, But You Don’t Belong to Me”
- Essay Shakedown: Personal Versus Reported
- Modern Fatherhood
- Are You a Reliable Narrator?
- What I’ve Learned from Joyce Maynard
- How to Make More Money Writing
- Writing Your Truth — Even When It Scares You
- The Quest for a Modern Love Clip
- Basic Tenets for Surviving During the Pandemic
- Building Character
- Honoring the Craft
- Confessional Writing: What You Need to Know
- There’s Power in the Puzzling
- On Fabricating Truth
- Rethinking Pennebaker
- Do You Believe in Magic?
- With Gratitude to Writers
- Writing About What Freaks You Out
- Need Inspiration?
- The Power of Place
- On Privacy
- A Star is Born
- It’s About Character
- Sharing Your Truth
- Tales from a Hospital Room
- Lucky Charms
- Passion with Purpose
- Shameless
- Finding Pennebaker
- Gobble Gobble
- Cultivating Magic