HeyJaredBrad Wetzler
Writing and editing books and articles for major US publishers for 30 years. Former Outside magazine senior editor. My memoir is Into the Soul of the World (Hachette, 2023). Join my 5-week Map Your Memoir course in April.
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What if we gave our stories–and our lives!–a chance to thrive before we tried to fix them? (opens the original)
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I Was Gobsmacked by the Number and Volume of the Human Smiles (opens the original)
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Dear Seekers, I hope you’re tasting a little fall in the air where you are. I keep saying I can taste it. And that probably makes it sound like I’m walking around Boulder trying to outright lick the morning. And maybe I am. The mornings are cooler now. Up in the high country, the aspens are already turning yellow, getting on with it before the rest of us have found our sweaters.Fall has always been my favorite season. When the first crisp wind comes down off the mountains and hits my face while
The Strange People Who Made Us (opens the original)
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Dear friends,I hope you’ve had a little time with Monday’s prompts from Alexandra Fuller’s Leaving Before the Rains Come. Today, I want to stay with Fuller and read you another passage.This one comes from earlier in the book, when she’s writing about phone calls with her chaotic, eccentric parents back home in Africa. It’s funny and a little crazy, and you get such a strong sense of who these people are and the family Fuller came from.It got me thinking about our own families and the characters
Writing Your Way Back to Yourself (opens the original)
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Dear Seeker,I’m traveling this Labor Day weekend, but I wanted to make sure you still got today’s Writing the Heart video and prompts. This week, I’m reading from Alexandra Fuller, who grew up in southern Africa and has written several beautiful memoirs about her family and her life there. In Leaving Before the Rains Come, she writes about the end of her marriage and the slow process of finding her way back to herself. I hope the passage gives you something to write from.Please click the Like bu
Making art by candlelight (and chasing swans) (opens the original)
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Welcome back, everyone. Today, we’re dipping back into Patti Smith’s Just Kids with two passages I absolute love, both hitting on that raw, restless urge to create.The first is near the beginning of the book, where a young Patti sees a swan. She feels this immediate, deep pull to describe what’s in front of her, to somehow trap that feeling in words. But she can’t quite catch it. The swan, and whatever it woke up inside her, stays just out of reach. I love this tiny moment because it <a class="i
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