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Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter
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On letting go of “done”
Evidence, explanation, and exercises
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Write better by knowing your reader
Writing when everything hurts
Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea
(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's
"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."
After a writing exercise where the panelists explored different career paths they might have followed, Dan, Adam, and Taylor talk through th
I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson
After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen
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A scheduling update for our next episode
Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea
Having spent the week responding to a prompt—What does it feel like to be alive?—Rachel and the Bundle writers spend their final hour of the
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Taking cues from Robert Yagelski’s Writing as a Way of Being, Rachel guides the panel through pedagogy. At the end of a taxing week, how can
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