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Midlife is the plot twist. Essays & guides for women reclaiming their identity, creativity, and agency. The structure of fiction is the structure of transformation, and we write through it together, one prompt at a time. Subs get FREE Heroine's Guide.
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I've Lost My Sense of Purpose (opens the original)
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Have I told you about my trip to Antarctica? I promise this is relevant to your sense of purpose, or lack thereof.My husband is a history fanatic. Like, ‘should have been a history teacher’, fanatic. Me? Unless the history thing has the word "Tudor" in the title, I'm not interested. For my husband, the idea of sailing across the most dangerous sea crossing in the world (The Drake Passage) so he could walk in the footsteps of great explorers like Ernest Shackleton was a dream come true. For me? A
Ambitious for Joy (opens the original)
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My weekly journal prompts are free and always will be. “I’m sorry I’m not ambitious.”My daughter and I were watching the New York City skyline revolve around us, or were we
I'm Stuck in a Rut (opens the original)
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It's 1989, and life pretty much sucks.I'm 18 years old, and I have nothing to do. Like, nothing.I'm supposed to be in my freshman year at my dream college, Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. But our house burned down the day after I graduated (another story for another time). Because our house burned down, we had to move. Now we're living in a gorgeous creaky old house on the Delaware River, kinda in the middle of nowhere.I don't have a driving license because I'm too afraid o
The Story Room Salon Insider: The Threshold Guardian (opens the original)
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Call for Submissions (Paid/Compensated) (opens the original)
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You do it before you’ve even started wanting the thing you want.You want to take that drawing course that means you’d have to steal from the grocery budget. You’d love to go back for that degree in French Literature. You’d prefer to spend the money on that cruise down the Nile rather than the roof that isn’t actually leaking yet. You’d love to keep the wee hoose you write in all to yourself, instead of turning it into a gym for your family. And before any of that (your basic human desires that y
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