The Writing Rundown

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes “After our earliest ancestors crawled out of the oceans, how soon did they feel the desire to crawl back in?” ― Sherman Alexie, War Dances Photo by Maria Orlova What do I...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” ― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Photo Credit: Hrvoje Abraham Milićević Sometimes spring means new growth, and sometimes bring...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes "I don't dislike you. It's an oversimplification.” ― Ilona Andrews, Magic Bites Photo by SHVETS Last week I asked how you were feeling about the changes to The Writing...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes “The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.” ― Amanda Gorman Frühjahrsmüdigkeit* literally translates as "spring fatigue" and it is a sense...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “I still believed in possibilities then, still had the sense, so peculiar to New York, that something extraordinary would happen any minute, any day, any month.” — Joan...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “And everyone I surround myself with, I think they're farmers too. But they're story farmers. It's about getting up every single day and planting those seeds and watering...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes “Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Photo by Oleksandr P This...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but building on the new.” — Socrates Photo by the cactusena: You’ve likely heard this phrase...

Welcome to The Writing Rundown, a weekly newsletter that offers advice, short essays, and reading suggestions to help driven writers (like you!) improve their writing craft. It's nice to see you here! If someone forwarded you this email because they love your writing, you can subscribe here. Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes “You can only fail us if you do nothing.” ― Neus Figueras, Lorac I hate to be the one to break it to you, but you have already messed up your new-year goals and...