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Write What Someone Doesn’t Want to Hear
After writing a piece that caused family estrangement, I had doubts. I questioned whether I was a good person and why I had written it in the first place. Then I remembered that every piece of good writing has stakes. The best has high st...
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How to Get Repeat Bylines
This week, I worked through a new essay with Business Insider editor Jennifer Goldblatt. When she asked for more context on one scene, my response went so deep that I realized, “Wait a minute, this could be another essay.” I mentioned it...
When to Throw Out Your Prepared Agent Pitch
There is an art to preparing your agent and editor pitches. You can’t under- or over-prepare. You want to sound natural and not rehearsed, but you also want to be concise and confident. The most important thing that got me to the next ste...
What to Do When Life Prevents You from Writing
Are you a seasonal writer, or a different kind of writer? Like wine, writers come in several varietals. There’s the daily writer who wakes up religiously and completes their morning pages, and the Mon-Fri writer who treats it like work an...
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Essayist/ Writing Professor at Antioch University. Publications; HuffPost, Brevity Blog, Hippocampus, Manifest Station and more. Currently working on her memoir, I'll Show You.
Heather Sweeney's work has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, HuffPost, Business Insider, and elsewhere. Her military divorce memoir CAMOUFLAGE: How I Emerged from the Shadows of a Military Marriage is out now!
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