Don’t Write Alone
A Musical Key to Earth’s Wild Music
Here are five animals, each with the music it makes or inspires, and each with a bit of its story, selected from Earth’s Wild Music.
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Writing Is Time Travel
My writing gives the validation my younger self will need to believe in me, for me, during the years between now and when I won’t know how.
Where Ingrid Rojas Contreras Writes
The three Polaroids that hang by my desk are from different parts of the story, but it helps to have them nearby.
Actions Must Have Consequences: An Interview with A. E. Osworth, Author of ‘We Are Watching Eliza Bright’
“I take real issue with the idea of ‘in real life’ versus on the internet. That’s not a distinction that exists. It’s not honest.”
How to Sit in Companionable Silence: An Interview with Lynn Casteel Harper, Author of ‘On Vanishing’
“We can begin to identify other ways to conceive of dementia apart from terror. The stigma isn’t simply inherent—so it doesn’t have to remain this way.”
Help! My Jealousy Over Other Writers’ Success is Destroying Me
In our first Tarot + Craft column, Sarah Elaine Smith gives advice to a bitter writer
How Science Journalist Ed Yong Helps Readers Make Sense of the World
“If you do it well, science writing trains you to grapple with uncertainty, to embrace nuance, to run toward complexity, to try hard to make sense of the world.”
Which Books Would You Choose for an English Course?
For our April Writing Question of the Month, we asked our instructors: If you could design your own syllabus for an English course without restrictions, what are five books you’d choose to include?
My Ten Students Finished Their Ten Books—in the Middle of the Pandemic
We don’t talk about witnessing when we talk about writing, but I witnessed my students finish their essay collections in a year-long program.
Keep Writing, Just Keep Writing
As a way to cope with rejection, I often repeated to myself: Focus on the work rather than the results.
