HeyJaredTragedy Plus Time
An award-deserving newsletter about turning tragedy into comedy--with monthly generative writing sessions for paid subscribers and my crushes.
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Shower More—and Other Ways to Have Ideas (opens the original)
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If you’re lucky, you are haunted by ideas. If you’re lucky, certain stories in your life won’t leave you alone, stories that don’t seem to matter that you want to make matter.If you’re unlucky, then read the rest of this newsletter. Where do ideas come from? Your gut? The universe? Wikipedia? Silence? Noise? Reading? Journaling? The idea stork? There are no right answers. And actually, the best ideas come from questions. To quote some men: “Computers are useless — all they can give you are answe
Answering the Hardest Question (opens the original)
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Because people are heartless, they will ask you what your writing is “about.”When writing about yourself, it may seem obvious what you’re writing about. Hahahaha. No. Writing about your life doesn’t mean you can summarize it as a story.Some answers to “What is it about?” are better than others. Bad answers include but aren’t limited to:“Bitch, I wrote a whole essay/book about what my writing is about.”“It’s hard to explain.”“It’
Writing Behind People's Backs (opens the original)
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This Friday at 1pm ET author and I will talk LIVE about my most-asked question as a memoir/essay writing teacher/author: how do you write about other people??? <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="1350" src="h
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