Writing Life
How to Write About Your Ex
I encourage everyone to write about their ex. Release them. Release yourself. Feel the peace.
What I Wish I Knew As a Younger Writer
For our Application Week series, Sari Botton on writing for trade publications and what advice she wished she had received.
Can I Be a Writer if I Can’t Speak English Idiomatically?
If English is the only language that I can claim proficiency in, shouldn’t I be able to speak and write it idiomatically and well, even if it’s not my first language?
Writing as a Person of the Ear
How I’ve learned to write about my own experiences documenting the AIDS/HIV crisis as an oral historian.
On Writing with Chronic Migraines
How do you build a creative practice around chronic pain?
After Fifteen Years, I Stopped Panicking, Started Declawing, and Finally Published My Memoir
At last, I took my teachers’ and mentors’ advice, and scrutinized my own behavior more than anyone else’s.
How Stand-Up Comedy Helped Me Craft a Public Writer Persona
Writing my first jokes, I’d replaced my anxieties over the public-facing demands of an author career with a greater willingness to show up and be seen.
Finding My Authentic Voice as a Late-Diagnosed Autistic Writer
I had always used writing to try and make sense of myself, without realizing just how much of this was a way of processing a divergent experience of the world.
I Went to Medical School and Came Out a Writer
Literature and medicine are not opposed pursuits but rather one in the same endeavor to find sense in messy, human stories.
Can Fiction Help Solve the Ethical Problems of True Crime?
True crime wants us to believe that our monsters are individual, not systemic—the errant serial killer rather than a violent and inequitable culture.