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If you’re new to The Rebel MFA Way, welcome! This is an essay in my ongoing “Writing Fiction to Heal in Real Time” series where I deep-dive into my writing fiction to heal method as field work and a case study. This is an update essay on my...
If you’re new to The Rebel MFA Way, welcome! This is an entry from my on-going serial fiction experiment “The Archive.”
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The rooster doesn’t crow...
A few weeks ago, I published an essay called “Falling Out of Myth” where I laid out Sharon Blackie’s argument for how metanarratives actually change. Not from the top down. Not by committee. Not by some visionary author declaring a new stor...
I’ve been writing this Substack for almost five years, now and the essays that get the biggest response from readers aren’t about writing at all. They’re the horror ones — like the Haunting of Hill House piece, or the one where I argued the...
The town Normal, Minnesota is doing fine. That’s the first thing wrong with it.
The diner is full. The windows are lit gold against the snow. The bank on Main Street still has money in it (real money, the kind you can rob) and the shops on...
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I decode horror and fairy tales as survival manuals and teach writers to heal through story. The Rebel MFA Way for the craft; The Bloody Key for the knife. Creator of Writing Fiction to Heal, author of 20+ books, professional cat herder.
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