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 Skinny on Book Coaching, featuring Jennie Nash
Writing with Sensuality, featuring Leesa Cross-Smith
Writing What Terrifies You, featuring Ashley Woodfolk
Helping Books Remain a Vital Part of Our Culture, featuring Andy Hunter
Moral Ambiguity in Fiction, featuring Quentin Lee
All About Book Festivals, featuring Cherilyn Parsons
Setting Stories Free, featuring Caits Meissner and T Kira Madden
Probing the Line Between Insanity and Art, featuring Lee Kravetz
Tough-Love Marketing, featuring M.J. Rose
How We Think about Anger on the Page, featuring Lilly Dancyger
Can Writing Be Taught? featuring Lisa Stringfellow
How We Think and Write about Intimate Experiences, featuring Melissa Febos
The Art of Writing Forgiveness, featuring Ashley C. Ford
Writing to Make the World a Better Place, featuring Parker J. Palmer
The Drama of Friendships, featuring Jean Chen Ho
Research Is Not Just for Facts, featuring Margaret Verble
Out in the Open about Erotica, featuring Rachel Kramer Bussel
Risk It Like You Mean It, featuring Angela Engel
Borrowing from Mythic Structures, with Michelle Ruiz Keil
The Gift of Multitudes of Perspectives, featuring Farah Ali
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