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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Ringing in the New Year with Book-to-Film Recs!
Conviction—When You Know Your Story Resonates, featuring Alka Joshi
Fear and Desire, featuring Erica Jong
Migration as an Essential Shared Story, featuring Shanthi Sekaran
Challenging Your Perspective on the Journey to Getting Published, featuring Bella Mahaya Carter
Why Retelling Stories Is Always an Act of Creation, featuring Kwame Mbalia
Owning Your Authority as an Author, featuring J. Allen Cross
Allowing Anger to Fuel Your Writing, featuring Namina Forna
Get Ready for NaNoWriMo, featuring Chris Baty
The Art of Subtext, featuring EJ Koh
The Difficult Balance of Writing and Self-Care, featuring Charlie Jane Anders
The Staying Power of the Mother-Daughter Story, featuring Laura Davis
Books That Help Start Conversations with Kids, featuring Anastasia Higginbotham
Using Storytelling to Inform and Educate, featuring Kaitlyn Greenidge
Craft Is Never Neutral, featuring Matthew Salesses
Confronting Shame, featuring Firoozeh Dumas
Best of YA, featuring Laurie Halse Anderson and Marie Lu
Best of Sex Writing, featuring Deesha Philyaw and Kim Addonizio
Best of Memoir, featuring Mary Karr and Elizabeth Gilbert
Best of Debut Fiction, featuring Mateo Askaripour and Sameer Pandya
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