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how to write your life without losing your mind

'I paint women because I'm searching for myself. I think it's what all women do with imagery of our sex: We search for ourselves, whether it's in…
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Last night I had dinner with a pal from Toronto when the subject of diaries came up. He told me he started keeping one religiously over thirty-five…
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welcome to my workshop
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laundry from the cracks
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Kurt Vonnegut, specifically something he said in a famous interview in 1995. He was asked some tedious boilerplate…
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I’ve never had a problem putting words on the page. I figure it’s mostly because I started on a newspaper, which teaches you to churn out copy and hit…
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"I really had no idea how much people would care about my age. It’s the last thing that matters in writing. What does matter is working at the craft."
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open thread #5: can bad words be good?This morning on Radio Four’s daily current affairs program the Today Show, the beloved 81-year-old British actress Miriam Margoyles broke with B…
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in praise of the luxuriant submission of midlife
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open thread #4: so what do you want out of memoir club?So far I’ve been pretty loose about Memoir Club — and this unstructured approach was by design. I’ve been posting about the aspects of personal …
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“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to ­music, meditate, exercise; whatever you…
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answer: a lot more than you think
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how to sell a book without losing your mind
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a mother-daughter love story
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plus a few thoughts on the agonising fragility of the literary ego
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'I paint women because I'm searching for myself. I think it's what all women do with imagery of our sex: We search for ourselves, whether it's in…
Leah McLaren
1
Last night I had dinner with a pal from Toronto when the subject of diaries came up. He told me he started keeping one religiously over thirty-five…
Leah McLaren
17
welcome to my workshop
Leah McLaren
6
laundry from the cracks
Leah McLaren
12
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about Kurt Vonnegut, specifically something he said in a famous interview in 1995. He was asked some tedious boilerplate…
Leah McLaren
I’ve never had a problem putting words on the page. I figure it’s mostly because I started on a newspaper, which teaches you to churn out copy and hit…
Leah McLaren
28
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