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Federico Zandomeneghi - Woman writing (1894) - Private collection, painting of woman in white dress with her back to the viewer, writing on a table with a yellow table cloth

What If You're Scared: Of Writing

The Latest Entry in Our Series About Being Scared Shitless

Two men on Northwest Airlines aircraft, one using typewriter, with female flight attendant in background, ca. 1965

Q&A Friday

Airport Edition

A large spiny nautilus shell in black and white

One Thing You Should NEVER Do When Trying to Publish a Book

Advice about Advice

A print of a woman holding an old telephone to her mouth her ear. Underneath it says "Personne parlant." Right: a man holding an old telephone. Underneath "personne eccoutant."

Why You Should Rethink Asking Agents About Their Communication Style On The Call

Because it's probably not the question you really want to ask

A blond white woman in a yellow sweater against a blue background and the cover of a green book with a blue melting face illustration, white text: The Fountain a novel Casey Scieszka.

How To Have It All

looooooooooooooooooool

Jon Hamm as Don Draper in the last scene of Mad Men, meditating overlooking the ocean.

Do You Need To Go On A Writers Retreat?

"Need" is doing a lot of work here

In the foreground scrub bushes, a wooden fence, and old oak trees. In the background, a tree covered mountain and a bright blue sky.

Q&A Friday: IRL Edition

I'm at a writers retreat so I'm tapping in some writers.