Frank Kensaku Saragosa felt a bit uneasy as he walked past the tents that lined the sidewalk along downtown San Diego’s East Village. “I used to stay over there,” he said, pointing to an embankment off Commercial Street near Interstate 5. Saragosa, 56, was anxious that some of the homeless people in the sidewalk encampments […]
When Yanina Bellini Saibene began her career in data science at the National Institute of Agricultural Technology in La Pampa, Argentina, she was not fluent in English. She had learnt a little English at secondary school, but her family couldn’t afford the extra courses she would have needed to master the language, and at university […]
Click here to view original web page at The Decades-Long Story Behind Writing Tracy Flick Tom Perrotta revisits his cult character and looks back on the ’90s feminism that made her. Paramount Pictures / Alamy; The Atlantic In the dark 1999 comedy Election , the overachieving student Tracy Flick—played by an up-and-coming Reese Witherspoon—dreams of […]
Click here to view original web page at Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories “When more isn’t there, or the story is hidden, my imagination fills in the blanks left by small snippets of family history.” I grew up in a family reluctant to tell stories. Like about Elizabeth, […]
Click here to view original web page at Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing “You cannot let worry win.” The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter— sign up here . If you hang around the writing racket long enough, you will see every sort of writing […]
Click here to view original web page at When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ BlockBetween subway stops on the F train, on my way to see a psychopharmacologist for a headache I’d had for six months, I received another rejection from another agent for yet another draft of my book proposal. […]
Click here to view original web page at Retired doctor took up writing to stay awake Dr. Judson Hout knew he was likely to be awakened shortly if he went to sleep while on duty in the emergency department, so he didn’t sleep — he wrote. Hout, 87, considered self-publishing his work to share with […]
Click here to view original web page at ‘I think I was good, though I could have been better’: Terry Pratchett and the writing of his lifeAfter he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the Discworld author began an autobiography. He never finished it, but seven years after his death, his long-time assistant has taken up the […]
Click here to view original web page at Submissions Are Open for the Jingkids Creative Writing Contest!Here at Jingkids , we love stories; stories that make us laugh, stories that make us cry, and stories that share our unique perspectives of the world. There are so many young and powerful voices out there that we […]
Click here to view original web page at I spent years writing about women at work. Then I had a baby — and an existential crisis.Writing about the challenges of working parenthood didn’t fully prepare the author for the transition. The author is not pictured. I’m a careers-and-leadership reporter and I often write about women’s […]
