Turning Down the Noise
Caitlin McGillBook news, new essays, writing and publishing tips, & conversations about quieting external voices and turning up the volume on our authentic selves. New posts every other month.
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Sixty-two rejections & two years later, the essay was accepted for publication
One of the biggest challenges of the writing life is maintaining faith in our work.
Today I want to tell you about an essay I began years ago, an essay I revised and rewrote again and again, searching for its final form, knowing something...
What is happening to my ideas?
During all the years of writing and rewriting my memoir, I hand-wrote and then typed list after list of details: memories that woke me or jolted me out of a conversation and that I needed to find a place for in the book.
I would title thos...
Stories that floored me
I’ve been totally absorbed by fiction lately.
I feel so lucky to have an advanced reader copy of Whidbey, which has just completely captivated me. I’ve been trying to read it slowly, because I don’t want the book to end, because every page...
Summer discoveries
1. It has been a hot, hot summer. Heat advisory for several days again; a crow has just landed on the roof across the street. I dare, most days, to read the news.
And I have been daring to write.
Turning Down the Noise is a reader-supp...
"Creating Differently,"
I’m sorry for the delay. Apologies for taking so long to get back to you. Please forgive my late reply.
Lately, I just can’t get myself to write. No—I can’t get myself to like what I write.
I’ve been trying. And then trying not to try....
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Words in Blackbird, McSweeney’s, Vox, etc. Winner: 2020 Indiana Review Nonfiction Prize. Finalist: 2021 Chautauqua Janus Prize. Three Notables in Best American Essays. Staff-scholar @ Bread Loaf. Assoc. Prof. of CW in VA. Writing a memoir. She/her.
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