Write better by knowing your reader
Trying to get published? Avoid these mistakes!
Evidence, explanation, and exercises
(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
Writing when everything hurts
On letting go of “done”
Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea
Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.
Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter
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
After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen
"a ringing sense of mortality underscores everything we write" -Maggie Nelson
A scheduling update for our next episode
"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
Rachel and the writers (including guest panelist Fadeke Adegbuyi!) welcome the author of Writing as a Way of Being, Dr. Robert P. Yagelski—o
I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson
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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
The team talks to John H. Richardson, award-winning journalist for publications including Esquire and GQ — and Rachel’s dad! — about structu
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Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea
