I would graduate in a few months. I was supposed to be joyous. Yet I was not.
WRITING LIFE: Rejection and Resilience by Jennifer Case
Category: Writing Life
Our Writing Life column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
WRITING LIFE: Writing My Way Out by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge
My writing career peaked at age seven. I had been hunched over my dad’s Apple IIc for weeks, clad in my pajamas…
Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love by Tawni Waters
As I’ve delved more…deeply into other great memoirs, and into life in general, I’ve realized that no person, if observed closely, could ever come out on the other end of scrutiny looking anything other than messy,
WRITING LIFE: My (Real) Life with the Lincolns by Gayle Brandeis
I wanted to write a memoir called My Life with the Lincolns, paralleling my family’s story with the Lincoln family’s story.
WRITING LIFE: More Than I Dreamed Of, Barely Enough by Sara Petersen
I am learning how to say the words “I’m a writer” without effacing the words with a shoulder shrug or an apologetic smile…
WRITING LIFE: Accepting My Blindness As A Freelance Writer by Kerry Kijewski
I am barely six months into this whole freelance writing thing. So far I’ve learned it’s a struggle for nearly everyone who attempts it.
WRITING LIFE: Joan Didion and Me by Jennifer Mattson
One cannot talk about writing essay, without first talking about Joan Didion.
WRITING LIFE: Tame the Darkness: Managing Anxiety and Depression in Order to Write by Tiffany Sumner
It’s commonplace to assume the best writers struggle with anxiety, depression, or trauma…
WRITING LIFE: “Real” Writers Doing “Real” Work by Rae Pagliarulo
For 10 years, I told myself I wasn’t a writer, but almost every single day, I wrote. What was holding me back? Why couldn’t I say the word?
The Writing Life: “Word-Hoard” by Stephen D. Barker
Wordhoard is an Anglo-Saxon epithet for the mind in the chest, seat of reason and emotion—we still speak of getting things off of our chests.
