Write Like An Outsider
Esther Harder, Anna RollinsStories and techniques that leverage the observational skills developed over a lifetime of ALMOST fitting in.
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The Patriarchy Tanked My Championship Dreams
Since we're headed into World Cup Finals weekend, I wrote this personal essay about one of my championship runs.
If there's one place where the patriarchy has been thrust in my face throughout the course of my life, it's been on the soccer...
Jump Out of the Slush Pile and Into a Scene
First you need all of the required elements for a great scene. Then you need the right proportions of scene, summary, and exposition. Here's how to check that you're there.
In the manuscripts I've been reading this past month, I've found m...
You Can Never Go Home Again
Each summer for the last five years or so, I’ve gone home but never arrived.
Photo by Jamie Cooper on Unsplash
I want to offer my child a touchstone for the community I grew up in, memories that can lie dormant without much explanation no...
Outsiders, Welcome!
Consider this post to be your tour guide/host/orientation session to learn about what I’m building here at Write Like An Outsider.
What’s Write Like An Outsider about?
I’m a book coach for memoir writers with battered passports. I be...
Tell the Inconvenient Parts
It’s tempting to get caught up in building out the perfect memoir outline. You’ve put in the hours of ideation and pre-writing where you’ve taken a long, careful look at your life and selected a timeframe or theme to focus on. You’ve even i...
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I help memoir writers craft outsider stories that connect. If you've ever grabbed your go-bag at the hint of a white picket fence and a mortgage, I'm here for you and that story of yours. I am an Author Accelerator certified book coach in memoir.
Author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (Eerdmans, 2025). Work in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, Electric Literature, NBCNews, etc. English faculty in higher education for nearly 15 years. Mom of 3.
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