WriteByNight

Weekly mailing of education and inspiration

Turning to Writing During COVID-19

Published: Sat, 03/28/20

Dear WriteByNighters, If you're reading this email, you're a writer we've connected with, either recently, way back when, or sometime in between.

Four Discussions to Help Us Stay Connected

Published: Sat, 03/21/20

Hello, friends, With parts of the country already under shelter-in-place orders and the same looming over the rest of us... well, shit's getting…

Your 2020 Writing & Reading Goals Progress

Published: Sat, 03/07/20

Hi writers, We're more than a quarter of the way through 2020. Isn't that nuts? Didn't it just start? These fractions of a year always get me to…

Opening Your Story or Novel With Dialogue

Published: Sat, 02/29/20

Hello WriteByNighters, Earlier this week I started reading a novel that began with disconnected dialogue, which is something I rarely enjoy but have…

Keep Writing Till Your Heart Breaks

Published: Sat, 02/22/20

Hi writers, Inordinately busy this week -- too busy even to write (wait, really, or is that a rationalization, David?!) -- I don't have a new blog…

I Wrote Till My Heart Broke

Published: Sat, 02/15/20

Hi writers, There's a moment early in Chapter 2 of Under the Volcano where Yvonne asks her husband, the Consul, why he never responded to any of the…

Multiple Books & Writing Projects

Published: Sat, 02/01/20

Hi writers & readers, On last week's episode of Yak Babies, my pals and I talked about our e periences with reading multiple books at once. I'm…

Try to Be Funny, Don't Suck

Published: Sat, 01/25/20

Hi WriteByNighters, In the winter issue of the Paris Review there's an interview with George Saunders that I've been thinking about all week. He's…

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