10 Office Supplies Every Writer Needs at Home
I don't know why it took me so long to realize I could buy things for my home that I'd only used in offices or school. Oh yeah, duh. You…
I don't know why it took me so long to realize I could buy things for my home that I'd only used in offices or school. Oh yeah, duh. You…
Every month, I have a dinner party where we talk about the most forbidden of fruits as far as conversation topics go: money. We eat a homemade, collective meal while…
I bartered with another business owner to help her design her systems, and we were deciding which electronic signing service to go with. It took us two hours. We still…
On the latest episode of my podcast, I get to talk with my coaching student, Bria, about how she saved up to take a year off to write. While she…
I am feeling feelings about Kristen Arnett's book, Mostly Dead Things, an absolutely fabulous and hilarious novel set in Florida. Psst: This site uses affiliate links. Hey Paulette, weren't you…
As we walked down the beach one day, my mom and I saw two anchored boats cracking against each other in the waves. One had broke loose of its rope.…
I just finished Tara Conklin’s book The Last Romantics on a plane, and I wanted to call, “Attention: People in the emergency row. Have you read this book? You must,…
Like Will Ferrell or Amy Sedaris, it seemed like John Hodgman was creating a new kind of humor. We had no idea what he was going to do next, but…
One thing I know about the writing life is that you get better at the thing by doing it. I started out hoping to be invited to do the thing…
I'm doing Liz Frugalwoods' Uber-frugal challenge this month, and I don't like it. I mean, I like her and her challenge, but I don't like feeling like I can't do…
It's spending season. The sun shines upon Seattlites at University Village as I run to the Amazon book store, because it's the only place to return the clothes I bought…
Is there anyone classier, smarter, and more of a person I might be tempted to put a photo of on my mantel than Michelle Obama? She's brilliant in her own…
Before my trip to South America, I looked for places he’d been. I had 24 hours in Cali in Colombia, and he’d gone there, had dinner with some local musicians.…
"In my mind, a beach read is something that’s “unputdownable,” whatever that means to you," says Susan Kehoe, managing partner of Browseabout Books. When the New York Times asked booksellers…
Zadie Smith is kind of everything you ever want to be. I'm in love with this short story I heard her read on the New Yorker fiction podcast, and she…
As you know, Amy Schumer is ridiculous. I consider her my long-lost third sister. Not only does she have her book, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo, she of…
I've only once fallen in love with a piece of land, and I've been trying to write about it for a decade. When I bought a horse in Paraguay, I…
Roxane Gay was sitting outside Hugo House one night when I went to a reading. My friend Jessica and I chatted with her about student loan debt. When we said…
George Saunders is an uber-favorite: kind, brilliant, hard-working. I've never met anyone who said a bad word about him, and he was very generous when I met him outside a…
You know that feeling like you want to just head out to a cabin in the woods and just write? Well you can get a little bit of that with…
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There's a style of third-person in fiction that frees up your narrator to let the characters indirectly share their thoughts, without all the clunkiness of “she thought” or “he imagined.”…
Here’s how I got into McSweeney’s: 1. I submitted about 10 pieces over the last 10 years. 2. I joined a group of comedy writers and saw other people getting…
When you get live in a certain place, you get to know the writers who aren't necessarily the biggest names (though some are). Here are 10 writers I would love…