The Spark ✨
Ruthie Ackerman, Olivia MuenterA weekly newsletter from a big city girl with big bylines (Vogue, Glamour, NYT) about the craft of writing, building a supportive literary community, plus reading, design, and lifestyle recommendations for creatives of all kinds.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 127 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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The Miracle Baby Story Is Missing a Chapter
A few weeks ago, The Cut ran a piece about women struggling to get pregnant after 45, emphasizing in the headline how some had even spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and didn’t come home with a baby. I made a ninety-second video about...
The Mistress Project
For years I’ve heard writers talk about how when they get bored or stuck they work on something else – a mistress project to keep the spark alive on the page. But I’m old fashioned and monogamy both in my writing and in real life has always...
The Lie You Once Believed
Last week, on the final day of my retreat at the Omega Institute, we went around the circle and named one thing we were taking with us. One attendee teared up when she said, “I started writing in the first person instead of third and it bro...
Seven Questions About Writing with Joseph Osmundson
Each month, I ask an author I love to answer questions about what it means to be a writer and this month I reached out to Joseph Osmundson, professor of microbiology at New York University, the author of Virology and the recently published...
Your Book Isn’t Stuck. It Has One of These Four Problems.
Recently, a client who had been turning in pages to me every week for the last year texted me frantically with one word: Stuck.
I could feel her anxiety through the phone and I knew she was spinning around several book ideas. So I wrote ba...
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Ruthie is a writer and developmental editor who has been published in Vogue, Glamour, O Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. Her debut memoir, The Mother Code, was published this year (Random House, 2025)
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