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Do We Have Enough Kindling To Burn This Log?
🌀Welcome to the August 2026 edition of Spiral-Bound, a newsletter for writers.🌀
IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH KINDLING to burn the log, burn it.
If you don’t, then you have some options.
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You can use what you have to burn what you can.
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Yo...
The Better You Get, the Harder You'll Have to Work
🌀 Happy July to you! Here’s this month’s Spiral-Bound. 🌀
🌀 Gleaning From the Letters of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
In my unslakable thirst to understand writing and the writing life, years ago I happened upon this book.
It’s the...
From Six Words to a Full Story
🌀Happy June to you! Here’s this month’s Spiral-Bound.🌀
🌀 Quit Waiting. Start Writing.
Registration for Memoir Summer Ends Tomorrow, Tuesday, June 2 at 11:30 pm
This summer I’m teaching a memoir course for writers of al...
Rebuild a Relationship With Your Writing Practice
I am moving to a monthly publication schedule for Spiral-Bound. This is a platform for important writing ideas.
I spoke to the Narrative Nonfiction Masters Program at UGA January 2026. Photo by Sarah E. Freeman.
The Top or Bust for Addi...
100 Writerly Things to Do Before You Die
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Visit the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
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Read one of Shakespeare's plays.
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Memorize a Mary Oliver poem.
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Recite a poem from memory in a bar.
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Sit on a bench reading in Central Park.
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Organize your home lib...
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