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One Year to a Writing Life – General Impressions + December

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Emma Lindhagen — 1 Comment ↓

It’s now been over a year since I started working with One Year to a Writing Life. With varying degrees of enthusiasm, I’ve worked through all 12 chapters so I thought it was time to summarize my general impressions of the book here. But first, I’ll talk briefly about the last chapter, called Writing the Way Home. I had trouble getting into Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – General Impressions + December→

One Year to a Writing Life – September – The Alchemy of Writing

Posted on October 9, 2014 by Emma Lindhagen — 3 Comments ↓

So, the chapter from One Year to a Writing Life that I did in September was called The Alchemy of Writing. It was a bit of a weird one. It was about finding an idea and turning it from a little nugget into a story through a series of steps. It started, like the earlier chapter on dreams and writing, with Continue reading One Year to a Writing Life – September – The Alchemy of Writing→