Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter
Trying to get published? Avoid these mistakes!
On letting go of “done”
Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.
Keeping up with writing when you’re away
Evidence, explanation, and exercises
Writing when everything hurts
Write better by knowing your reader
Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea
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
Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Taylor welcome new Every lead writer Evan Armstrong—the new voice behind Napkin Math—to the podcast. Topics include:
Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea
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After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen
Rachel and the writers (including guest panelist Fadeke Adegbuyi!) welcome the author of Writing as a Way of Being, Dr. Robert P. Yagelski—o
Returning for the new year’s first conversation, Rachel asks Dan and Nathan about how their writing collaboration mirrors their unique busin
Rachel and Taylor join Dan to workshop his upcoming essay on something everyone has feelings about: Worry. Topics include: how we might chan
"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."
With special guest Fadeke Adegbuyi in the room this week, the gang discusses her upcoming essay on the tracking app Spoonbill, the tensions
Rachel, Nathan, and Taylor welcome Kieran O'Hare, an Every writer and editor whose recent Superorganizers profile of Dan Shipper took an ent
Pulling from an anti-writer's block resource created for Every writers and readers, Rachel takes Dan and Nathan on a journey through a word