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Why Everyone Should Keep An Authority List
Some of you might have seen this essay recently on Jane Friedman’s site. If you are a new subscriber, welcome! 👋🏻 I hope you’ll join the conversation…
Nov 5
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Joshua Doležal
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Discussion: Seeing Our Mothers As Characters
Earlier this week, I shared some thoughts about transforming real people — especially parents — into characters in memoir.
Sep 13
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Joshua Doležal
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Seeing Our Mothers As Characters
In his memoir Nobody’s Son, Mark Slouka recalls an afternoon when he caught a glimpse of his mother with her lover, a man he only ever names as “F.”
Sep 10
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Joshua Doležal
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How Folk Ballads Help You Write Better Stories
If you watch streaming TV, you’ve likely internalized its formula for plot, how the opening scene introduces a murder or illness that the heroes spend…
Aug 20
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Joshua Doležal
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Blush At Yourself Before Anyone Else Can
Danielle Ofri taught me how to turn myself into a jerk in nonfiction.
Jul 30
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Joshua Doležal
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The Treachery of Narrators in Memoir
Tobias Wolff begins This Boy’s Life with an epigraph from Oscar Wilde: "The first duty in life is to assume a pose. What the second is, no one has…
May 28
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Joshua Doležal
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How To Edit Audio In 8 Simple Steps
Did you know that 505 million people will listen to podcasts in 2024?
May 14
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Joshua Doležal
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The Best Metaphors Are Epiphanies
I’ve been attending a Quaker meeting since last August, a gathering that observes an hour of silence.
Apr 30
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You Know Literary Fraud When You See It
Thoughts on ethical invention in memoir
Feb 6
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Joshua Doležal
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Awaken Your Memoir By Making It Strange
Defamiliarization will transform your scenes from prosaic sketches into haunting images that live on in your reader’s memory long after they have left…
Jan 23
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Joshua Doležal
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Replay! How to Write a High-Performing Personal Statement or College Essay
Watch now | This workshop will teach you how to leverage audience awareness and storytelling strategies to write a high-performing personal statement or…
Dec 1, 2023
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Joshua Doležal
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Should a Workshop Be a Safe Space?
Alison Acheson and Joshua Doležal on teaching writing
Nov 28, 2023
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