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By andrea askowitz and allison langer
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Writing Class Radio is for people who love true, personal stories and want to learn how to write their own stories. There's no better way to understand ourselves and each other than by writing and telling our stories. Everyone has a story. What's yours?
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197: Shut the F*ck up, Please
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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196: My Abortion at 11 Wasn’t a Choice. It Was My Life
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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195: Florida’s Abortion Law Almost Killed My Wife
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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194: A Physician's Duty
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Oct 16, 2024 |
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193: Another Try at a Better Life
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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192: A Letter to My Son About His Abortion
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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191: The Shade of Our Grandmothers’ Trees.
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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190: Then and Now and Back to Then
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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Our Abortion Stories: Seven Storytellers on Heartbreak, Health, and Hope
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Sep 13, 2024 |
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189: I Found Connection Through a Tattoo of a Bee
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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188: Making Room for Hope after My Daughter Died
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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187: How I Lost My Husband But Gained a Bigger Family
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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186: Something Beautiful Happened When I Shared My Writing with My Family
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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185: Am I Turning into My Mother
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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184: Just Tell Us How it Went Down
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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183: If You Don’t Want to Know, Don’t Snoop on Your Daughter’s Instagram Account
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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182: A Story is Like a Thesis. You Gotta Make Your Point.
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May 29, 2024 |
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181: What Do I Do if I Have Nothing Left to Write About?
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May 15, 2024 |
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180: The Forest Raised Me Better than My Father
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May 01, 2024 |
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179: How to Use Science to Create an Emotional Connection to Place.
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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178: Is it Rape if You Were Blackout Drunk?
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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177: How to See Beauty in Small Things
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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176: Flying Home or Someplace Better
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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175: Fighting Fire with Aspen and Birch
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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174: For the Love of Science
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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173: Birds Will Be Birds
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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172: How to Start a New Job
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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171: Can You Find Humor in Addiction?
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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170: Here's Why I Resolve to Fail More
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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169: My Brother's in Prison. Could I Have Done More?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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168: How to Write about Life When Everyday Is a Reminder of Death?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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167: Even Though I'm Judging You, Don't Judge Me for Being a Chopper Mom
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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166: The Most Unique Essay We've Ever Aired
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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165: A Psychiatric Hospital Nearly Ruined My Life
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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164: Can We Live on Through Our Writing?
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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163: Letters to My Son in Prison – Why Writing Matters.
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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162: Do As I Say Not As I Do
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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161: You Look Great BECAUSE You’ve Aged
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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160: Cliches Saved My Life
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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159: Rash Decisions
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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158: My Dead Mother Brings My Sister and Me Together Once a Year
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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157: I’m the Black Crayon Nobody Wants
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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156: Outsourcing My Orgasm
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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155: Every Word Matters
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May 31, 2023 |
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154: Are Thin People Allowed To Write About Weight?
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May 17, 2023 |
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153: Want To Get Published in HuffPost? Editor Noah Michelson Tells You How
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May 03, 2023 |
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152: How Music Inspires Storytelling
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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151: Follow the Story Spine to Get Published
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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150: In Transition: How to Write a Story About an Ongoing Situation
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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149: How to Make Your Writing More Personal (in any Field)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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148: How to Plan a Threesome
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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147: How to Write a Story about Abuse Without Using the Word
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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146: How to Write a Winning Pitch
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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145: A New Year's Nightmare
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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144: When Is a Gift More than a Gift?
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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143: Cutting Needless Words
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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142: Beginnings and Endings
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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141: Where Does Your Mind Go When You're Given a Writing Prompt?
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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140: One Man's Abortion Story
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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139: This Is What Mania Looks Like
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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138: There Is Always More to the Story
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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137: How to Fight with Your Co-Host and Win a Writing Contest
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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136: What Makes You Weird in the World?
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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135: In Praise of Complaining
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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134: #MedicalGaslighting: Writing as a Service
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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133: Nobody Dreams of Getting Divorced
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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132: Here’s My Abortion Story. Men, Tell Us Yours.
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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131: How to Write About Something You Can’t Remember
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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130: I’m Not Scared of Death, But I Can’t Stop Asking This One Question
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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129: Maybe We’re All Just Homing Pigeons. Are You Home Yet?
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May 18, 2022 |
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128: My New Manifesto: A Man Serving a Life Sentence for Murder Changes His Ways.
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May 04, 2022 |
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127: Parenting Alone: How Will My Autistic Son Manage Without Me?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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126: Will We Ever Understand Each Other if We Don’t Speak the Same Language?
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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125: Tossing the Shells but Not the Memories.
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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124: The Hate Hate Creates
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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123: The Words He Left Behind
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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122: What Does 44 Years in Prison Look Like?
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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121: When a Big Mistake Becomes Catastrophic
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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120: My Pen Uncovers the Real Me
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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119: When Is it Safe to Ignore the Law?
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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118: Standing at the Prison Gate, I Was Icarus Plummeting to Earth.
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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117: A Day in the Life of a Prisoner
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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116: How Do You Fulfill a Promise When You’re Stuck in Prison?
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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115: What I Learned from Men in Prison
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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114: Sometimes It's Better Said in a Song
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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113: I Was the Real Life's Queen's Gambit
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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112: Voice Isn't Everything, Is It?
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Sep 22, 2021 |
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111: It’s a Matter of Time
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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110: How to Write About Death: Use an Obsession.
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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109: Show and Tell.
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Aug 18, 2021 |
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108: How to Write Your Story with Joyce Maynard.
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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107: Can You Hear Me if I Can’t Hear You?
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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106: How Do You Know if Your Story Sucks?
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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105: Teach Us Something We Don't Know
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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104: Sleep Left Me for a Younger Woman
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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103: Is it Ok to Write the Same Story Over and Over?
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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102: A Boyhood Brush With Breast Cancer
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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101: I Own Seven Vibrators and I Still Worry About What to Say at a Cocktail Party
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May 19, 2021 |
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100: Happy F*ing Mother's Day
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May 05, 2021 |
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96: How to Hit Your Editors in the Heart
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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95: What Did it Take to Finally Get Published?
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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94: Crafting a Story is Like Solving a Puzzle
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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93: Brave Listener Gets Hard Edits
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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92: Taking the Long Road, Writing About Transformation
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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91: Bye Bye 2020
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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90: The Upside to a Downside
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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89: How Does a Man Get Away with Calling Women Bitches and Hoes in a Story?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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88: Should I Stay or Should I Leave This Country?
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Nov 09, 2020 |
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87: At Home in My Skin
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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86: Torn Between Two Houses Feeling Like a Fool
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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85: What Does Your TV Habit Say About You?
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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84: Who's Your Voice of Reason?
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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83: Every Word Matters
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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82: A Poet's Response to Senseless Murders
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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81: An Insider Conversation with a Literary Agent
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May 06, 2020 |
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80: We Grant you Permission to Write or Not to Write
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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79: How to Write About Death: Use an Obsession
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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78: Writing Helps You Figure Out How You Think
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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77: Gotta Be a Good Literary Citizen if You Wanna Get Published
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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76: Abortion Stories Matter
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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75: How to Go From Idea to Published Essay to Book Deal
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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74: Think Like a Writer with Dani Shapiro
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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73: How to Write When Shit Gets Real
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Aug 28, 2019 |
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72: Create Scenes So People Remember
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Aug 14, 2019 |
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71: What’s Inside Your Container?
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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70: How to Write About the Unbelievable
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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69: How to Write Your Story While You're Still Living It
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Jul 03, 2019 |
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68: What's a Meta Phor?
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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67: Ready, Set, Go Get Into College
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Jun 05, 2019 |
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66: How to Brag and Pull it Off.
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May 22, 2019 |
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65: Slow Down. You Don’t Want to Miss this Moment.
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May 08, 2019 |
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64: Inspiration Sometimes Comes in the Form of a Dress
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Apr 24, 2019 |
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63: From Pitch to Publications
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Apr 10, 2019 |
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62: The Devil's in the Details
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Mar 27, 2019 |
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61: How to Stop Procrastinating and Write Your Story
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Mar 13, 2019 |
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60: If You Want to Write About Death and Get Published, Write the Truth
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Feb 27, 2019 |
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59: A Time I Had an Unpopular Opinion
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Jan 30, 2019 |
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58: Everyone Needs an Editor/Friend
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Jan 23, 2019 |
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57: What's Your Achilles Heel?
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Jan 16, 2019 |
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56: Write About Me!
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Jan 09, 2019 |
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55: The Mean Letter You Always Wanted to Write
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Jan 01, 2019 |
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54: From Writing Prompt to Published Story
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Dec 26, 2018 |
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53: Should I Edit Out the Dick Pics?
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Dec 19, 2018 |
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52: Funny Story...My Brother Has Cancer
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Dec 12, 2018 |
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51: It's Not Possible to Write 52 Bad Stories in a Row
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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50: We Don't Care About Your Life if it Doesn't Serve this Story
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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49: This is Awkward. Nobody Wants to Talk About Money
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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48: Get Into a Writing Class So You Can Write About Your F'd Up Family
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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47: Show and Tell
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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46: An Object is More than Just an Object
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Jul 04, 2018 |
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45: Identity is Fuzzy. What's Behind Your Many Faces?
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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44: Voices Carry a Lot of Weight in a Story
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May 01, 2018 |
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43: Voices in Your Head
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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42: Secret Pleasures, Who Are We to Judge?
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Mar 07, 2018 |
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41: The Moment I Knew Everything Was About to Change
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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40: Likable Narrator: Be the Biggest Asshole in the Story
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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39: Get Out of Your Way and Write
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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38: Write Better by Mimicking the Masters
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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37: Ready to Write that Memoir or Novel? Nov. is National Novel Writing Month
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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36: Hurricanes and Stories Define Us, Since the Beginning of Time
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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35: What Makes You You?
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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34: Let's Ignore Writing Class Protocol and Talk About Our Lives
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Aug 19, 2017 |
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33: Great Writing Starts With a Question. What Don’t You Understand?
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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32: Will This Ever End?
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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31: Take Me Into Your World
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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30: How to Write Your True Story with Joyce Maynard
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May 19, 2017 |
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29: Can You Hear Me if I Can't Hear You?
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Apr 21, 2017 |
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28: Who Has Time?
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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27: When Is It Okay to Bullshit?
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Mar 03, 2017 |
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26: Writing is Therapy
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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25: A Time I Fucked Up Part 2
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Feb 01, 2017 |
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24: A Time I FUCKED Up
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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23: I Fart, You Fart, We All Fart and Most of Us Deny It.
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Dec 14, 2016 |
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22: Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes Feels Impossible Right Now
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Nov 23, 2016 |
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21: How To Tell Your Inappropriate Story: Live Show with Ann Randolph
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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20: Where Do I Go From Here?
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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19: I'm Obsessed with Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, Steve Almond, and my Spin Instructor
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Aug 24, 2016 |
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18: Who is Jahn Dope? From H.S. Football Star to Homeless Man to the Great Philip Sylverin
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Aug 03, 2016 |
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17: Circuit Boys, Gym Rats, Papi Chulos, Fashion Queens, Bears...Which One Are You?
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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16: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone...Where the Magic Happens.
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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15: Dear Listener
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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14: Taboo: Fat, Fuck, Masturbation
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May 29, 2016 |
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13: Rejection Sucks. Why Do We Put Ourselves Out There?
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May 17, 2016 |
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12: Emotional Hangover. Those Times When You Feel You Told too Much.
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May 01, 2016 |
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11: Words Matter: Student Missy Shares Words with her Hero Elizabeth Gilbert
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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10: How to Write a Story Meant to be Told Out Loud
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Feb 25, 2016 |
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Will You Love Me Forever or Just on Valentine's Day?
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Feb 11, 2016 |
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9: Who Cares About Your Story? What Are the Stakes?
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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8: You Don't Have to be a Clown to Write Funny
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Jan 15, 2016 |
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True Story: Nobody Likes New Year's Eve.
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Dec 30, 2015 |
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7: Story Structure Is Sexy
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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6: Wendi Tells the Story of her Ex-husband’s Murder. Writing Is an Exercise in Trust.
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Dec 03, 2015 |
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5: The Lies We Tell
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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4: Field Trip to the Fertility Clinic. Freezing Eggs at 6 a.m.
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Oct 13, 2015 |
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3: What Is the Story You Tell about Your Relationship with Your Mother?
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Oct 11, 2015 |
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2: How Are You? Really?
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Oct 10, 2015 |
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1: The Pilot: The Hardest Thing To Write About
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Oct 09, 2015 |