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Chapter 94: Frozen Moments, Brought to Life
On the first day of this semester’s Memory Project class, my students brought in the photographs they would spend the semester thinking, reporting and…
Michael Shapiro
Feb 3
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January 2023
Chapter 93: When Writing is Betraying
Betrayal is an ugly word, and it’s not a great feeling either; a scar for the recipient, a scab for the perpetrator.Thanks for reading Writerland…
Diego Courchay
Jan 27
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Chapter 92: Book Proposal Agony
I have never been a good book proposal writer. I have written six books and the long, maddening, courage-testing, confidence-shaking process of writing…
Michael Shapiro
Jan 20
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Chapter 91: What Edward Hopper Tells Us About Writing
I discovered Edward Hopper when I was in my 20s. I was living in Chicago and, as best I can recall, I must have encountered his work at the Art…
Michael Shapiro
Jan 13
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Chapter 90: Writing the Impossible City
For writers, there is no escaping the city. At various stages in life, our innermost narratives are formed by the shape of its streets, just as its…
Diego Courchay
Jan 6
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December 2022
Chapter 89: When the Instrument Plays You
When I was in high school, during the last century, I began learning to play a musical instrument and, inevitably, struggled. The jangle of keys and…
Michael Shapiro
Dec 23, 2022
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Chapter 88: Writing’s Lifelong Grip
We’re delighted to introduce a new writer to Writerland, Diego Courchay, whose newsletter chapters will be appearing every month. Diego’s work has…
Diego Courchay
Dec 16, 2022
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Chapter 87: The First 100 Words
And so the day had come for my students to deliver the first 100 words of their stories. Not a lede and nut graf (more on that later) but their first…
Michael Shapiro
Dec 9, 2022
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Chapter 86: Consider the Nut Graph
With apologies to Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a true story in possession of ambition must be in want of a nut graph. The…
Michael Shapiro
Dec 2, 2022
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November 2022
Chapter 85: Thanks, but…
There comes a point in the lives of famous writers when they feel the time has come to turn to their readers and say, “I know you’ve all been eager to…
Michael Shapiro
Nov 18, 2022
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Chapter 84: The Gong Show
Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. * * *Thanks for reading…
Michael Shapiro
Nov 11, 2022
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Chapter 83: The Story So Hard to Tell
Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. * * *Thanks for reading…
Michael Shapiro
Nov 4, 2022
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