Tag: pandemic life
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This week in pandemic history: Thanksgiving
I’m currently reading the new collection of Alan Rickman’s diaries. My writer-brain often absorbs tone and voice from what I read, and it’s been interesting to observe the melding of my journaling cadence with Rickman’s. It’s also been interesting to dig into the content itself. I suppose I expected something a little more distilled, based…
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Writing retreat: August 2021
In my previous post about writing retreats, I talked about what they mean to me, how they support my writing process, and how that’s changed over the years. Now I’ll share some nuts and bolts about my August retreat with my best friend in Maine. I want to post this kind of thing more often…
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Reflecting on writing retreats, and how their meaning has changed over the years
I like to share about my writing retreats on here (hopefully to inspire others!), and I just discovered my notes on our August retreat buried in the Notes app. Oops! In the spirit of better late than never, I’ll share a bit about the retreat itself in a separate post, and reflections on what writing…
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Late-pandemic thoughts: please talk to me about work
Friends, it’s been a minute. I make no excuses. 2021 is the year I stop pretending this space is anything other than a more professional, less coming-of-age-angst-y incarnation of my early-2000s LiveJournal. Blogs felt so different then. They allowed us to step into the writer’s mind and process life through their lens. Terms like SEO,…