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Writing Stellar Cover Letters: 5 Small + Mighty Parts
You are not your resume. You are so much more than that, lady. You might be your cover letter, though. (Sorry!) It’s the only handshake you’ve got before somebody sweeps in and offers a face-to-face or...
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Let Us Taste The Ice Cream
I didn’t often listen to my mother’s writing advice growing up. She was full of it, too. Jamming my eardrums with steps for five-paragraph essays (which I still loathe) and red-penning the crap out of...
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The Cereal Aisle Is Full Of Blueberry Vanilla Almond Granola + The Internet...
Writers, right now, are vying for spots on cereal aisle shelves. Last month, Jane Friedman, a woman I’ve regarded as the editor for Writers Digest (though she’s since moved on to the Virginia Quarterly...
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We’re broken, Pink. We’re full on broken.
[part one] Some days, I wonder if you can send Christmas cards to heaven. Mine are sitting shrink wrapped on my coffee table, ready to be signed, sealed & delivered. I’m yours. I hope you know...
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You are never quite finished stretching toward the sun.
It’s been too long since I found something pretty to post on these pages. For months now, I’ve been quiet. Reserved. Tip-toeing toward something I couldn’t define. I wasn’t happy. With this. With us....
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Lace The Future With Good Intentions
The Internet is a noise machine. Before the ubiquitous Facebook Connect plugin straight up told you who to befriend on new member-based websites, you had to sift through the names of thirty-seven other...
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5 Tough Questions You’ve Got To Kick In The Butt Today If You Want To Write A...
I wrote my first novel at 17. It wasn’t even a little bit hard. The story, the emotions, the characters and their struggles? Those were all ready to spill onto the page. But was it a killer New York...
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You Are What (And How) You Tweet: Does Your Twitter Feed Deserve Some Grammar...
My little sister likes to tweet when going to Cook-Out, a dirt-cheap drive-thru chain in the South. She also shares when she’s holed up in the library memorizing art history triptychs or loading up...
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Standing On Creativity (+ 11 Other Lessons I Learned Since Getting Serious...
In any given year, we learn a TON about our world, our ideas, and ourselves. We challenge the voices in our heads and the billboards on the streets. Writing becomes the art of rewriting, of finessing...
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Before The Glam: 6 Staples For The Dirty Side Of Writing
The idea of writing a book and seeing your name pressed into its spine is glamorous. But the distance between the first line and the hardcover release is a cavern massive enough to echo when you shout...
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