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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. It is nearly as opposite as it could be from the…
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You Know Literary Fraud When You See It
Thoughts on ethical invention in memoir
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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…
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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…
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Should a Workshop Be a Safe Space?
Alison Acheson and Joshua Doležal on teaching writing
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How to boost your personal statement or college essay
A glimpse of my coaching services
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How to Break Writer's Block as a Memoirist
Block is the bane of many beginning writers. But instead of “writer’s block” I think we really mean “writer’s doubt.” When my students complained of…
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"I'm not Korean American. But I had to discover that I wasn't white."
Carol Roh Spaulding on her prizewinning story collection, "Waiting for Mr. Kim and Other Stories"
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Three Strategies for Drafting Your Book
Notes from a writing coach
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Open thread: The audience question
When to adapt, when to stand firm
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Can you write for a general audience anymore?
Or are the lanes narrowing?
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How folk ballads can help you write better stories
A playful form of academic freedom
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