HeyJaredWriting in the Pause
Writing craft author and journalist Jordan Rosenfeld, author of "Writing Through the Pause: Mining Midlife For Powerful Writing," invites you to enter the pause, a place of reflection and dissection of books, the world, and ourselves.
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Translating Inner Language (opens the original)
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Permission to Write at Midlife (opens the original)
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I had the good fortune to interview 28 delightful, deep humans for my book, Writing Through the Pause, and I will be sharing snippets of their stories with you throughout the year. It is my wish that the tips and prompts in the book plus their stories about midlife and creative struggles, will help anyone grappling with their writing or art, to subvert “crisis” and move toward creativity.<fig
Keeping Creative Energy Moving (opens the original)
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Collecting Echoes (opens the original)
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There are kinds of experiences that run adjacent to grief or sorrow but are not precisely either. Feelings that don’t get ceremonies or names. Transitional shifts that are internally tectonic but outwardly invisible in their inner redevelopment. <source type="imag
Allegory as Art Form and Healing Agent (opens the original)
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