Elizabeth Stark Powers
First and always a reader, I am also an author, teacher, sometime filmmaker, parent, and partner. In my newsletter, I coach myself and writers and readers like me to keep going!
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Free Revision Class TODAY Plus: Permission and Acceptance: The Overlap of Revision and Home-Organizing Strategies (opens the original)
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Reclaim Your Brain: Creating the Mental Space to Write and Read (opens the original)
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Deadlines Descend! (opens the original)
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Dear Wonderful Writers and (rarer still) Readers,It’s been a crazy summer. The gods of public schools have declared summer over though it in mid-August. What can we do?The avalanche of external things swallowed my ambitions at times over the past few months. You’ve heard from me sporadically, and I am sorry for that. I want to be part of what you can count on. I am always rooting for you, for your creative self, for you to be kind to and encouraging of your creative self. And, yes, for me to do
To Plan or Not to Plan: how this wildly false dichotomy may be stopping you in your creative tracks (opens the original)
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Writing for Your Life: a primer for understanding other people (opens the original)
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The Deals and the Deadlines, below:5-Day Story Boost - Summer 2026&SONOMA COUNTY WRITERS CAMPBut first:Writing for Your Life: a primer for understanding other peopleMy sister’s brother died last week. :( This is the kind of autobiographical sentence
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