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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. I stopped writing six years…
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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. Mark Westerbeck was a good…
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Writerland, Chapter 36: You’re Smart. Don’t Think So Much. Hold on, you say: your advice makes no sense. You tell us we are smart but not to think too…
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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. I have always been shy. It’s…
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The writing life does not lend itself to work/life balance. Writers define themselves by what they do, and if they don’t they should, even if it means…
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Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. I never gave much thought to…
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In the pantheon of gratuitous writing advice, alongside write what you know and find your voice, is the admonition to take risks. Often this advice…
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This newsletter began forty chapters ago as a journey propelled by a question: Is it inevitable or even essential that writers suffer? That journey…
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In 2014 a young American freelance writer named Noah Sneider came to us with a story. More specifically, he came to us with a question that he hoped he…
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I grew up romanticizing what the life of a writer would be like. I dreamed of nights filled with red wine and cigarettes and eccentric friends on New…
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Nothing makes writers feel worse about ourselves than feeling, believing, knowing we should be writing but are not. We stare at the ceiling. We check…
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When I reached out to Marcela Landres, I told her I wanted to talk about mentorship. I certainly wouldn't be where I am today without the teachers and…
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