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Focus and Finish with the Crown of Concentration

Here's a quick and fun way to get some more work done in close quarters with others.

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Writers Get Wild: Creating Your Own Self-Run Writing Retreat

My rent is $350 for the next three months, and I can’t tell whether it’s that or the physical space around me,

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10 Things I’ve Learned in 10 Years of Writing the Personal Essay

From my first essay nearly published a decade ago to the viral essay that got a million readers to the little goof essays I write now, here are 10 things I've learned about writing powerful personal essays

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How To Compost Artistic Envy Into Inspiration

I am feeling feelings about Kristen Arnett’s book, Mostly Dead Things, an absolutely fabulous and hilarious novel set in Florida. Psst: This

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How to Finally Finish Your NonFiction Book

I feel so lucky to have been included in this story in The New York TimesĀ about how to finally finish your non-fiction

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