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Still Learning
When I began this column in January, my goal was to share with you every month for a year what I know — and what I’m still learning — about writing…
Dec 2, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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November 2022
Writing the Novel as Trust Fall
Do you remember doing a “trust fall” at summer camp? Did you ever work for a company that presented these group exercises as fun activities at your…
Nov 4, 2022
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October 2022
Writing with Scissors
A few weeks ago, my writing group and I realized that all five of us had to confront some surgical-level revisions in our manuscripts. The plots weren’t…
Oct 7, 2022
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September 2022
On Loglines, or What’s This Novel About?
Maybe someone’s asked you what your novel-in-progress is about. Excited to share your pet project, you launched into an explanation of the plot, the…
Sep 2, 2022
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July 2022
Let's Talk About Dialogue
[REMINDER: John Lewis Writing Grants now OPEN (deadline: Oct. 1, 2022)] For a long time, I thought I was terrible at writing dialogue. I’m not terrible…
Jul 8, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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June 2022
Character Studies
I’ve spent the last two weeks doing almost nothing but reading novels, and I’ve noticed something about well-written literary fiction. It’s the…
Jun 3, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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May 2022
Cultivating Your Environment for Growing Fiction
I recently invited my friend Pete to speak to my undergraduates about his new book and his writing practice. He told them, among other things, that he…
May 6, 2022
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April 2022
Writers, Reading
We are writers because we are readers. Before we could read on our own, someone likely read to us, and we began the imaginative work of putting words…
Apr 1, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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March 2022
Come to Your Senses
Look away from the screen, and take a sensory inventory of what’s around you. What do you see? (For me, it’s a red bookcase, a striped mug, a geranium…
Mar 4, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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February 2022
Part of the Process
I promised you more about the “process journal” in last month’s column, so here we go. A process journal, which some people call a “case book,” is a…
Feb 4, 2022
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January 2022
New Years' Resolutions
A new year is traditionally the time for resolutions. We promise ourselves that this year we’ll do it (whatever “it” may be) better, that this time…
Jan 4, 2022
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Jessica Handler
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