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Archives for September 2017

Ep. 061: Olivia Dunn on What it Means to Do Two More Drafts

September 28, 2017


Olivia Dunn is a Visiting Assistant Professor of writing at Skidmore College and a creative writing instructor at the Arts Center of the Capital Region. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. She’s happy to be back in the Capital Region, where she grew up. Her essays have appeared recently in The Pinch Journal and McSweeney’s.
Craft Tip: When I can’t figure out what I’m doing, I go back to the big notebooks.

Book Recommendations from Olivia:
The Idiot, Elif Batuman
Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit
Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle

How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you’ll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing.

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Olivia Dunn talks to Rachael Herron about the best and worst writing advice she ever got (which turns out to the be the same thing, on writing two more drafts) on this episode of How Do You Write. Listen or watch now!

 

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Ep. 060: Rachael Herron with 3 Writing Tips You’ve Never Heard Before

September 11, 2017


Rachael Herron gives 3 tips to help you get to the page, daily. These are tips she doesn’t see many other people talking about, and she wants to share them with you. Listen or watch now!

CRAFT TIP: Break the seal. Watch your breath. Counsel yourself on the page.

How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you’ll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing.

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Rachael Herron gives 3 tips to help you get to the page, daily, tips she doesn't see many other people talking about. Listen or watch now!

Sign up for Rachael’s FREE weekly email in which she encourages you to do the thing you want most in the world. You’ll also get her Stop Stalling and Write PDF with helpful tips you can use now to get some writing done (free).

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Ep. 059: Amy Bernhard On Getting Uncomfortable While Still Finding Joy In Our Writing

September 1, 2017

Amy Bernhard talks about finding the new joy in the process of writing and about putting ourselves in situations in which we feel a little uncomfortable, in order to have something new to write about.

Amy is a writer whose essays appear in The Rumpus, VICE Magazine, Redivider, upstreet, The Toast, Ninth Letter, The Iowa Review, and The Colorado Review, among others. She presently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Texas-Arlington and The University of Iowa.  She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, and her work has been awarded grants from The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Arts. She is currently working on a book about the prison town of Huntsville, Texas.

HAZLITT ESSAY ON COWGIRL BOOTS 

CRAFT TIP: Go to spaces where you feel a little uncomfortable, a place where you’re an outsider.

How Do You Write Podcast: Explore the processes of working writers with bestselling author Rachael Herron. Want tips on how to write the book you long to finish? Here you’ll gain insight from other writers on how to get in the chair, tricks to stay in it, and inspiration to get your own words flowing.

Listen above, watch below, or subscribe on:

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Amy Bernhard talks about finding the new joy in the process of writing and about putting ourselves in situations in which we feel a little uncomfortable, in order to have something new to write about.

Sign up for Rachael’s FREE weekly email in which she encourages you to do the thing you want most in the world. You’ll also get her Stop Stalling and Write PDF with helpful tips you can use now to get some writing done (free).

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