stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Steve Almond

In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you’ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]

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stuck/unstuck: MEN UNDRESSED contributors talk internal conflict and writing: Lidia Yuknavitch

In life, we are destined, it seems, to repeat certain experiences until the meaning or lesson of the experience is conscious. Since the writing life is not separate from life-life, can you share how you’ve moved through a certain block that had always influenced (hampered) your writing process? How did you enter, tolerate, remain with [...]

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When journaling no longer helps the writer create…and write

One of my favorite people (and writers), Kim Hooper, has a gorgeous meditation/essay on her site about leaving behind the [kind of] love relationship she had with her journals. Kind of like breaking up, when the “other,” in this case, the journaling process, no longer nurtures the relationship in the same. Still, it can be [...]

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The Word: Andrew Tonkovich, Editor of Santa Monica Review

[Bringing this piece to the fore...it is, one might say, from the archives. Enjoy.] Individual tastes and interests in a story vary from person to person, and within that person, from day to day. What remains a constant, however, is the story’s (or essay’s, novel’s, memoir’s) ability to tap into what is real, to mine [...]

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The 5-Question [Book/Acquisitions] Editor Interview: Jennifer Lawler

What’s important is your willingness to engage with others—to share information, to let your personality shine, to make a connection. —Jennifer Lawler  [on platform]  Jennifer Lawler is the acquisitions editor/imprint manager for Crimson Romance, a new romance imprint from Adams Media (a division of F + W Media, Inc.). She spent many years as a freelance [...]

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stuck/unstuck: Debbie Koenig & “motherhood as an opportunity to break into new markets”

Debbie Koenig is a food writer, author and blogger (and mom), with a new book, Parents Need to Eat Too (Morrow). She also the creator of Words to Eat By, her site about feeding the entire family. Here’s what she had to say about writing after her son’s arrival: Once I made it safely out of the first [...]

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stuck/unstuck: Barbara DeMarco-Barrett & writing after baby arrives

Today I’m launching the first of a new feature: the stuck/unstuck series for writers. Many people I know who are writers have young children. Many of them are concerned about getting back to their writing after a baby is born, or when a child is growing up and demanding more time, or when a teen is [...]

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The 5-Question [Emerging Author] Interview: Shanna Mahin

How do you know what you don’t know? Sometimes I figure it out on the page.   —Shanna Mahin  SHANNA MAHIN is a high school dropout who rallied late and has become optimistic about a strong finish, due in no small part to a 2008 PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, [...]

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