The Writing Rundown

Welcome [back] to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. We’ll be returning to regular TWR programming next weekend. Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to...

Welcome to What I Learned From…, a curious little newsletter full of essays, advice, and rabbit holes for writers who want to sharpen their craft without losing their edge. If someone forwarded this because they think you're one of us, they’re probably right. You can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Walked out this morning, I don't believe what I sawA hundred billion bottles washed up on the shoreSeems I'm not alone in being aloneHundred billion castaways looking for a home —...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes “When you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.” — Chinese Saying Photo by Pavel Danilyuk What I Learned From … I’ve got one hand in the...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes “The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous” ― John le Carré Photo by Daniele Franchi What I Learned From … Baba Yaga lives deep in the...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes “The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous” ― John le Carré Photo by Daniele Franchi What I Learned From … Baba Yaga lives deep in the...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes “They should have sent a poet” ― Jodie Foster as Dr. Ellie Arroway in Contact Photo by Greg Rakozy What I Learned From … In 1977 NASA launched two spacecraft, Voyager 1 and...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day...

Welcome to What I Learned From… a newsletter that offers short essays, resources, and reading suggestions to help writers and essayists improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes “The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.” – Stokely Carmichael Photo by Reynaldo #brigworkz Brigantty What I Learned From Coming Back … It’s spring again. Which,...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. “The most wonderful thing about life is that you can always begin again. No matter what ups and downs you are handed in life today, you can always begin again tomorrow.” – Raiza Mendoza Photo by Chevanon...