HeyJaredCRAFT TALK
CRAFT TALK is a weekly newsletter about writing, creativity and productivity from author Jami Attenberg. This is also the home of 1000wordsofsummer, where, once a year, we write 1000 words a day together for two weeks straight.
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Late September (opens the original)
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Mini 1000 starts this Friday. Three days of writing one thousand words a day, with letters from me. More details here.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="443" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QM6z!,w_1456
When We Decide to Cut the Backstory (opens the original)
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I’m presenting a zoom workshop on how to use your life in your writing. It’ll be great for you if you’re writing autobiographical fiction or memoir or just want to generate some new ideas from your life. October 10. Details here.<div class="image2-i
When Books Play Tricks (opens the original)
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Hi friends.For an update on the reading of Land’s End while in Provincetown, give this a click:I love it when a book can do this because what a trick, what a fun little game Michael Cunningham has played with me, a person he has met exactly once, for five minutes, at a crowded literary festival cocktail party. (Which he will surely not remember, nor does he need to.) Like who doesn’t love a little surprise in their life?<div
Let us Live. (opens the original)
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I’m presenting a zoom workshop on how to use your life in your writing. It’ll be great for you if you’re writing autobiographical fiction or memoir or just want to generate some new ideas from your life. October 10. Details here.<div class="image2-i
Keeping My Fingers Crossed and Digging In. (opens the original)
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Hi friends.I’m going out of town for a week to write and be quiet so I thought I’d just say hello before I hit the road. If you make it all the way to the end of this note, you get a Mario update. But let me tell you, I’m prepped and ready to get some work done while I’m away.I will be working on my new novel during this time. In fact, as I may have mentioned, I have blocked out the next four months to work just on that and nothing else. I do have a few little essay ideas that keep popping up he
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