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Topic: Writing life

Jon Bernthal in "We Own This City" (Photograph by Paul Schiraldi/HBO)

How I started writing for TV

D. Watkins
Large iron gates secured with padlock (Getty Images/Inti St Clair)

Don't fear the gatekeeper, or become one

D. Watkins
Lord of the Flies (Getty Images/Eric Vega)

How to write about murder for teens

Mariko Tamaki
Vintage typewriter (Ken Redding/The Image Bank/Getty Images)

My mother's "selfish" writing retreat

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
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Waitress working at a restaurant (Getty Images)

"That waitress who thinks she can write"

Mesha Maren
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Let us all praise loneliness

Miciah Bay Gault
The stairs to the author's flat in Saint-Germain-des-Prés (courtesy of the author)

How I failed at Paris

Eleanor Brown

Essays for goat farms

Michele Filgate
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A writer walks into a bank

Rachel Basch
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