The Long Conversation

How to find your writing “voice.”

Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter

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

TLC #6: The Omniscient Writer

I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson

How Writing Can Help Us With Grief and Trauma

Evidence, explanation, and exercises

Chaotic Good

Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.

TLC #7: Coming Into Language

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

Who are you writing for?

Write better by knowing your reader

TLC #1: The Instruction of Influence

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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

TLC Podcast #12: Restful Reading

After Rachel, Nathan and Taylor provide a diverse array of reading recs for Dan's in-home vacation, the TLC crew wonders: why do we read wha

♥ 4 Feb 18, 2021

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

TLC #4: Writing as a Way of Being

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The Traveling Kind

Keeping up with writing when you’re away

♥ 4 Aug 17, 2021

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

Unstuck Yourself!

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

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

Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof

Writing when everything hurts

TLC #3: Ask a Journalist, with John H. Richardson

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TLC Podcast #4: Writing as a Way of Being

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

#15 - Restful Writing

This week, Rachel greets Dan, Nathan, and Taylor with a writing exercise: what is it like when your house is completely silent? Answering th

♥ 3 Apr 8, 2021

Introducing: The Long Conversation

The Long Conversation is a weekly live show dedicated to the craft of writing hosted by Rachel Jepsen, Managing Editor of Holloway. Great wr

Process Over Product

On letting go of “done”

Stop Getting Rejected For Dumb Stuff

Trying to get published? Avoid these mistakes!

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

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#17 - When the feeling stops, I’ll stop

Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Taylor welcome new Every lead writer Evan Armstrong—the new voice behind Napkin Math—to the podcast. Topics include:

♥ 2 Apr 23, 2021