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INDEX 2023

For The Unschool for Writers

Alison Acheson
Jan 31, 2023
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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…

January Markets

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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

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