Writing What Moves You
Amy PaturelWriting What Moves You is an ongoing love letter to essay writing, memoir, and my fellow narrative nonfiction writers who share their stories with vulnerability and heart.
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Spirals in the Sand
Mission Bay, April 2026
My mom always loved the beach. Decades before anyone worried about sun damage or skin cancer, she’d settle into her beach chair for hours on end, baby oil slathered all over her skin.
Those summers blur together no...
When Writing About Trauma Is, Weirdly, Liberating
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Let’s face it, no matter which political camp you live in—even if you live in no political camp at all—the world right now feels like a shit show. The release of the Epstein Files has retraumatized many s...
Writing, Craft Books And Soulfulness
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Admittedly, I’m terrible at reading, or rather finishing, craft books. Buying them, yes! Starting them, sure. But reading them from page 1 to “The End” like a responsible, well-adjusted writer, not so much...
Inconceivable and Immortal
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When I wrote an ode to Nora Ephron in May starring days-of-the-week panties (what else?!), it was inconceivable that Rob Reiner would be dead before the end of the year—that he would be brutally murdered i...
Playing with Point of View
Amy Paturel |What I imagine it might be like to adopt a bird’s-eye view
Many essay and memoir writers get stuck on the stories they’re most afraid to tell. The one memory they can’t seem to commit to the page becomes a giant boulder in the...
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