Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
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This week’s Write-minded floats into the magical and surreal world of Ingrid Rojas Contreras, who talks about her new memoir, The Man Who Could Move Clouds, about her curandera-storytelling mother and their shared history of amnesia, and about why to her magical realism is just realism. Grant and Brooke consider what gets passed down to us from our families and how our stories and histories are in our bones and lived experience, and how reading stories from writers whose lives are vastly different from our own can invigorate our writing.
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Craft-minded series: Writing "Imaginative Fiction," featuring Jeff VanderMeer
Craft-minded series: Craft as Shaper of Story, featuring Morgan Talty
Craft-minded series: Characterization, featuring A.M. Homes
How to Have an Opinion in Memoir, featuring Mychal Denzel Smith
On Writing and Selling Trauma, featuring Stephanie Foo
How to Follow Your Passions When the Creative Expression Feels Elusive, featuring Charlie Jane Anders and Azar Nafisi
Emotional Expression Is as Scary and Important as You Think It Is, featuring Erica Jong and Lilly Dancyger
Using Subtext and Omission to Achieve More by Writing Less, featuring EJ Koh and Charmaine Wilkerson
For the Love of Fantasy, featuring Kwame Mbalia and Namina Forna
Writing Intimate Truths, featuring Ashley C. Ford and Melissa Febos
The Collaborative Force of Anthologies, featuring Stephanie Raffelock
Straddling Lusciousness and Social Consciousness in Romance, featuring Angelina Lopez
Executing Funny in Memoir with One of the Most Celebrated Cartoonists of Our Time, featuring David Sipress
Genre-Blending and Bending, featuring Barbara Graham
Making and Finding Meaning, featuring Kathryn Schulz
The Power of Omission, featuring Charmaine Wilkerson
Changing Your Life Story, featuring Linda Holmes
Writing from Inside Your Industry, featuring Zakiya Dalila Harris
Reading Dangerously, featuring Azar Nafisi
Imagining and Reconstructing in Memoir, featuring Julie Metz
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