INDEX 2023
photo: in the Chihuly Museum, Seattle
The Index for year three of The Unschool for Writers.
Here is the 2022 Index and the 2021 Index.
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First-of-the-month Newsletter - always a potpourri
January 2023 - “Burrowing” prompt; updates on A Poet’s Craft, workshops, polls
February 2023 - prompt: craft & juxtaposition; poll on writing ritual
March 2023 - prompt: This Really Happened; poll on “authentic insight”; essay-writing thoughts
April 2023 - Traveling prompt; texture in your work
May 2023 - telephone booth prompt; “stand up!”
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Monthly Prompt Threads - add to at any time
January - Burrowing, borrowed from Katharine Haake
February - craft & juxtaposition
March - This Really Happened
April - traveling stories
May - phonebooth
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Foundational posts - watch for this visual for these posts…
Show, don’t Tell — Part I (showing) - Jan. ’23
Show, don’t Tell — Part II (telling) - Jan. ’23
Character Goals - conscious/unconscious and internal/external - Feb. ’23
Character Goals - Part II - Feb. ’23
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Poetry Discussion Threads - with Annie Finch’s A POET’S CRAFT
The kick-off thread from Dec. ’22
January Discussion Thread - chapter 1
February Discussion Thread - chapter 2
March Discussion Thread - chapter 3
April Discussion Thread - “words” as raw material - chapter 4
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Writing Life
Rejection - Ritual and Celebration - January ’23
My father’s birthday, and thoughts on taking pleasure in one’s work - February ’23
Writing Grants - getting that notification - Feb. ’23
Editorial questions - before the ms. is taken to the acquisitions meeting - March ’23
In Praise of Dithering - March ’23
Digression, Distraction—Maybe more dithering… March ’23
Age as the New Muse - March ’23
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Substack Info
How does this WORK?! - January ’23
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To Market…
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Fiction
The End Remembers the Beginning - March ’23
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Q&A
The kick-off post for Questions - April ’23
Q&A 1 - Second draft and flow - April ’23
Q&A 2 - Ideas - April ’23
Q&A 3 - Finding an editor - April ’23
Q&A 4 - Agents and writers’ conferences - April ’23
Q&A 5 - Are you really “all over the place”? - April ’23
Q&A 6 - Bringing nonfiction technique to fiction - May ’23