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A brief update
Taking a little break
 • Amy Colleen
The Summer I Turned Thirty
a recap of May-August reading and writing
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Good morning from the back porch
Trying something different.
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The Holiday Gift Your Writer Friend Really, Really Wants This Year
Engagement begets engagement. Here's what that means (and it's not about diamond rings or elephants).
 • Amy Colleen
Five Buckets of Nerdy Nostalgia (and Eighteen Rolls of Toilet Paper)
Children, books, gowns, catastrophes, and so on.
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Edgar Allan Poe’s Deliberately Meta Writing Process for Maximum Spook
How Poe purposefully set out to make “The Raven” evoke gothic melancholia — with no creative flights of fancy involved.
 • Amy Colleen
It's! A! Giveaway!
To celebrate 500 subscribers, I'm giving away...
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I Went to the Seaside to Take a Rest, and Nary a Word Did I Write
Relaxation can cultivate creativity. Yet giving in to the impulse to work in these conditions undermines the point of taking a break. (In other words…
 • Amy Colleen
Introducing The Summer of Jane Austen
A new endeavor for the next few months, with a Worthy Goal in mind.
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"Please Include a Bio of 200-300 Words"
An introduction of sorts, some musings on the distillation of ourselves into stand-alone adjectives and nouns ("tall! decaf! cappuccino!"), and the…
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Medium vs. Substack: Why You Should Do Both
Pros and cons of each platform (with real numbers!), and the benefit of giving your readers options.
 • Amy Colleen
A Reflection on Failing NaNoWriMo
and what's ahead in 2024
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