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 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...

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. “I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.” ― Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko Ask Me Anything … I desperately want to be a fulltime writer...

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. Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes “A poem is a naked person....Some people say that I am a poet.” ― Bob Dylan Photo by cottonbro studio Ask Me Anything … “I’ve finally dropped into the realization that I...

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. Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes “I woke up in the morning and saw, the world has moved on.” ― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz Photo by Ron Lach Ask Me Anything … “I'm really passionate about writing, but...

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. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes "Writing became more like eavesdropping and less like inventing a nuclear bomb." — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way Photo by Julia Barrantes Are you ready for it? 🎶 Nah,...