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ISSUE 7: URSULA LE GUIN, CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, CHRIS RADCLIFF | first drafts of stories/poems/essays + interviews with authors | producers of @failsafepodcast

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Emily Doyle@e_m_doyle4 Jan 2023
No big deal but I interviewed a LITERARY HERO (and literary crush) of mine, ⁦@rokwon⁩. She’s just as witty and wise as I could have hoped, and my conversation with her has lived rent free in my head since it ended. Now it’s up for all to read 🥲 worldliteraturetoday.org/202…
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Uche Nduka@UcheNdukaPoet5 Jan 2023
Offering and receiving poetry are basically acts of love.
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To lie next to one another in the woods. Franz Kafka, 1920.
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A lot of non art people talk about how AI eliminates drudgery and allows us to "focus on being creative" As if they even know what that means. They don't understand that the process is where the creativity happens. It's in all the small choices you make along the way.
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my little while ago friend and i made a list of all possible novel plots and it has kind of ruined reading for me. enjoy x
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I took my 1st writing class at 15 & have been in more than I can count since. One thing they all have in common is no one ever teaches how to edit. Meet @draftjournal, my favorite #awp22 find: Finished stories beside their 1st drafts. This is Ursula K LeGuin’s School for Wizards.
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What do you do with "deleted scenes"? Do you save them in a separate folder just in case you might need any of them in the future? #WritingCommunity #amwriting
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Writing and the Creative Life: 14 Artists Break Down the Creative Process: Words of wisdom from filmmakers, poets, architects, sculptors, dancers, musicians, and more. ow.ly/Z6tv50I4GXH #creativity #amwriting
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I don't want to brag but my writing has been called chaotic and exhausting.
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#ICYMI: Writing is revision. @draftjournal aims to sit with that messy process. @CharityNebbe spoke with editors @RachelYoder and Mark Polanzak about their new issue which includes work from Carmen Maria Machado and Ursula K. Le Guin. via @IowaPublicRadio iowapublicradio.org/podcast/…

Drafting as craft: Journal opens up the essential process of working through writing

Featuring stories, essays and poetry, first drafts and interviews with authors, draft attempts to part the curtain on the backend work that takes a piece from concept to a flushed out whole.

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the @GraywolfPress nonfiction prize opens for submissions TOMORROW 2/1 and closes 2/28 (bring em out bring em out)
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Have you ever wondered where and how your favorite authors write? Some of our speakers are sharing their secrets! Here’s where @askanyone writes - where do you write? #whereiwrite
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Reading through my WIP, I just found this gem: "I lifted one foot, then the next, and the next." How many feet does my protagonist have? 😂
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Read this fascinating conversation with @RachelYoder!
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"Here I am, a mother in a seemingly unresolvable quagmire of career and family, ambition and maternal love, so how do I tell this story? It’s going to take something beyond realism to untangle it.” @RachelYoder courtney.substack.com/p/embr…
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At long last, my book “Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People” is coming out on 2/22/22. We’re having the launch at @Rizzoli_Bkstore in NYC that day at 6pm ET, and I’ll be joined in conversation by my generous wife @rgay! bit.ly/RizzoliWDM
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Essay: "I’ve started thinking of this moment, this chess move where the poet breaks a line and almost resets the game, as the lyric decision." (The New York Times) #pdnews nytimes.com/2022/01/25/books…
The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next (Published 2022)

The Lyric Decision: How Poets Figure Out What Comes Next (Published 2022)

There are endless ways to write a poem, but Rilke offered one foolproof formula that echoes throughout several recent collections.

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The whole world looks like it’s about to crash and burn any second, and I’m sitting here like, “I’d better get this screenplay written quick then.”
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Andy Jacobson@aijac20 Jan 2022
Wishing a happy 76th birthday to the inimitable @DAVID_LYNCH If you're looking to make headway on your 2022 reading list, I can't recommend "Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity" more highly. #davidlynch #creativeprocess bit.ly/3KmJZQd
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How the #creativeprocess works. Spoiler: it’s not simple. We review @gideonamichay’s #NoNoNoNoNoYes wp.me/P23AlC-vt #creativity
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Lucas Mann@LucasWMann21 Jan 2022
Hell yeah! @colleenkinder put together an amazing book and I’m really proud to be in here with some of my fave writers!
Sophie Haigney (@SophieHaigney) profile pictureSophie Haigney@SophieHaigney21 Jan 2022
This beautiful book, edited by @colleenkinder, is out on March 22! I have an essay in it alongside many amazing writers I admire and it is pre-orderable now!! bookshop.org/books/letter-to…
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