Write-minded: Weekly Inspiration for Writers
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This week Write-minded wades into the important topic of writing about childhood trauma. Trauma is at the heart of many of our stories, whether you’re writing coming-of-age or only touching upon childhood stories in the context of specific memoir scenes (or raw material for fiction). Javier’s memoir, Solito, is a stunning book about his nine-week journey from El Salvador to the US as an unaccompanied minor when he was just nine years old. The original journey nearly killed him, and in this generous interview he speaks to how the journey of writing about his experience saved him.
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The Art of Writing Unlikeable Characters, featuring Ben Purkert
Community as Muse, featuring Kellye Garrett
Coming-of-Age Stories, featuring Yasmin Azad
Graphic Novels, Literary Collage, and Poetry Comics, featuring Kelcey Ervick
Leveraging Your Why, featuring N.D. Jones
Taking the Dare, featuring Krystal Marquis
Stories That Must Be Told, featuring Nicole Chung
Writing a Violent Story with Love, featuring Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Investigating Toward Deeper Truths, featuring Gretchen Cherington
The Mystery Is the Clarity, featuring Charif Shanahan
Pushing Boundaries in Book Publishing, featuring Joe Biel
Writing with Raw Honesty about Family, featuring Rebecca Carroll
Dollars and Cents—the Money Episode, featuring Rachael Herron
On Pioneering and Why It Matters, featuring Donna Hill
Executing an Ambitious Book Project, featuring Jinwoo Chong
The Themed Poetry Collection, featuring Heather Bourbeau
The Literature of Longing, featuring Madelaine Lucas
The Self-improvement Memoir, featuring Peggy Orenstein
Mining Tension in Fiction, featuring Gish Jen
How We Can Reclaim Our Stories Through Fiction, featuring Cheryl A. Head
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