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Make October the Month You Write Every Day (opens the original)
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Hello and Happy Wednesday, writers! Quick reminder to join us for Writer’s Room at 8am ET or 8am PT if you’d like to spend an hour writing in community this morning.Tomorrow is day one of 31 Days, 31 Essay Prompts: A Month of Writing About Family and Relationships. Our popular month-long prompts courses are designed to help you break through writer’s block and generate lots of ideas for your
Mini Flash Essay Contest: Describe a Time You Had to Make a Hard Sacrifice (opens the original)
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Three Opportunities to Kickstart Your Writing Process This Week (opens the original)
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Happy Monday, writers! If you were intrigued by the StoryCraft piece we shared last week—“How Much ‘Fiction’ Are We OK With in Our Nonfiction?”—make sure you don’t miss our just-published Narratively Magazine deep dive about a memoir that definitely had too much fiction: Jessica Lipsky’s riveting: He Murdered My Uncle...Then Wrote a Fake Memoir About It. If you haven’t had a chance to dive into that
Join the Fall 2026 Narratively Book Incubator (opens the original)
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How Much ‘Fiction’ Are We OK With in Our Nonfiction? (opens the original)
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