HeyJaredDispatches from Daily Life
Writing coach and author Jena Schwartz offers readers fierce encouragement for writing + life in the form of poetry, personal essays, and opportunities to write, reflect, and grow together.
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Friday Dispatch: And Now, We’ll Have Paris {11s} (opens the original)
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Friday Dispatch: The Courage to Be Undone and Remade (opens the original)
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Friday Greetings: Reflections and a New Poem on the Last Day of 5786 (opens the original)
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11s: Nothing Personal, Everything Personal (opens the original)
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Friday Dispatch: Let This Practice Change You (opens the original)
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Friday greetings, Last night, I dreamed about sitting with three teenagers and talking to them about freewriting. “It’s not about skill,” I told them. “It’s about practice.” They looked at me questioningly. I gave them a prompt – it’s the first one in my book, Fierce Encouragement. I’d like to share it with you, too. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BOuc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr
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