story & spark

Hi, friends. Some time over the course of writing these letters to you, I stumbled upon the closing Pencils Up. I don’t know where it came from or when I began using it consistently. But I like its simple call to action. For me, it conveys a kind of shorthand - the world is a hot…
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Hi, friends. Hope you are well. It’s warming up here, summer is on the way and I am two exams and a week or so of grading from being my summer self…
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Hi, friends. I hope you are well, that spring is whispering all kinds of possibilities in your ear. Over the last month or so, I’ve DNF’ed two novels…
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Hi, friends. I hope you are well. There are some weeks, like this one, where it doesn’t feel as though I have any profound advice to give. It’s not…
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Hi, friends. Today I want to talk about the burden of originality and how this notion trips us up sometimes. As writers, we like to think that we are…
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Hi, friends. There are weeks when I don’t know how to square the relative comfort of my life with all that is going on in the world at large. This has…
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Hi, friends. I don’t know if it’s the cabin fever of February or a feeling born from lack of control, but writers have been an angsty bunch on the…
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Hi, friends. I hope you are well as January comes to a close. On my walk this week, I saw three daffodils in bloom. A sign that spring will be here…
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