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Pick up a pen or launch the Notes app on your phone and start writing. No pressure, no deadlines, no standards to follow but yours, no rules to…
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Amanda Pavlov is an author, stand-up comic, voracious reader and mom whose debut YA novel, Mind Like A Diamond, came out in December. We talked about…
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I too did all I did with the best of intentions.
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One day at a time.
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February 2023

I am here to enjoy every minute, every opportunity to make this life of mine one worthy of the privilege that it is to be present, and to be healthy…
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Hello, and welcome to the monthly edition of Texting With a Writer, where I share with you text messages I’ve exchanged with fellow writers about the…
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the words I write exist to register life so that it endures as the clock ticks, and the seconds and minutes and hours and days and years add up, and the…
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January 2023

A choice I make because I have to is a choice that could make what comes next easier, like the choice to conclude an urgent (and annoying) task so that…
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You can touch your work every day. There’s time if you make time for it. Writing is personal, so touching your work is making time for yourself.
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Asking for help when words don't come.
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As Anne Lamott wrote in Bird by Bird, "You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they…
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May you always be open to seeing and embracing the beauty that surrounds you.
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