The Long Conversation

Weekly conversations on the craft of writing

Jul 12, 2021

How to find your writing “voice.”

Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter

Oct 13, 2021

Stop Getting Rejected For Dumb Stuff

Trying to get published? Avoid these mistakes!

Aug 2, 2021

Process Over Product

On letting go of “done”

Aug 17, 2021

The Traveling Kind

Keeping up with writing when you’re away

Jul 19, 2021

Chaotic Good

Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.

Sep 22, 2021

How Writing Can Help Us With Grief and Trauma

Evidence, explanation, and exercises

Aug 23, 2021

Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof

Writing when everything hurts

Jul 26, 2021

Unstuck Yourself!

Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea

Oct 19, 2021

Who are you writing for?

Write better by knowing your reader

Apr 15, 2021

#16 - Specificity informs intimacy

Rachel, Nathan, and Taylor welcome Kieran O'Hare, an Every writer and editor whose recent Superorganizers profile of Dan Shipper took an ent

Oct 14, 2020

TLC #1: The Instruction of Influence

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Oct 21, 2020

TLC Podcast, Episode 1: The Instruction of Influence

Introducing The Long Conversation: Podcast Edition! In this edited version of Rachel’s first live chat with the Bundle writers, they discuss

Dec 1, 2020

TLC #7: Coming Into Language

"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."

Nov 15, 2020

TLC #6: The Omniscient Writer

I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson

Nov 11, 2020

TLC #5: Writing as a Way of Being, p. 2, with Robert P. Yagelski

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Nov 5, 2020

TLC #4: Writing as a Way of Being

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Nov 24, 2020

TLC Podcast #6: The Omniscient Writer

After a writing exercise where the panelists explored different career paths they might have followed, Dan, Adam, and Taylor talk through th

May 28, 2021

#19 - Welcome to another edition of Thunderdome

Rachel brings together Nathan and special guest Evan Armstrong to discuss the writing and editing processes that led to their hit pieces fro

Nov 16, 2020

TLC Podcast #5: Writing As a Way of Being Part II, with Robert Yagelski

Rachel and the writers (including guest panelist Fadeke Adegbuyi!) welcome the author of Writing as a Way of Being, Dr. Robert P. Yagelski—o

Dec 21, 2020

TLC Podcast #8: The Body Question

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

Oct 20, 2020

TLC #2: The Function of Form

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Oct 26, 2020

TLC Podcast, Episode 2: The Function of Form

Rachel talks with Dan, Nathan, Adam, and our newest panelist Taylor Majewski about Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-smashing memoir, In the Drea

Mar 19, 2021

TLC Podcast #14 - What, Me Worry? Workshopping Dan Shipper

Rachel and Taylor join Dan to workshop his upcoming essay on something everyone has feelings about: Worry. Topics include: how we might chan

Dec 14, 2020

TLC Podcast #7: Coming Into Language

After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen