Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.
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
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
After a writing exercise where the panelists explored different career paths they might have followed, Dan, Adam, and Taylor talk through th
Write better by knowing your reader
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Hello!You’re getting this email because you signed up to attend The Long Conversation, a live show dedicated to the crafts of writing, readi
After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen
(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
On letting go of “done”
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Evidence, explanation, and exercises
I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson
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Writing when everything hurts
A scheduling update for our next episode
Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter
The team talks to John H. Richardson, award-winning journalist for publications including Esquire and GQ — and Rachel’s dad! — about structu
Rachel and the writers (including guest panelist Fadeke Adegbuyi!) welcome the author of Writing as a Way of Being, Dr. Robert P. Yagelski—o
Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea
Here ya go, folks! I neglected to include a registration link in my last email for TLC #3: Ask a Journalist, with John H. Richardson. Here i
"a ringing sense of mortality underscores everything we write" -Maggie Nelson
Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea
