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Tragedy Plus Time

Elissa Bassist
Hundreds of paid subscribers

An award-deserving newsletter about turning tragedy into comedy--with monthly generative writing sessions for paid subscribers and my crushes.

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Latest Issues

Writing Behind People's Backs

This Friday at 1pm ET author and I will talk LIVE about my most-asked question as a memoir/essay writing teacher/author: how do you write about other people???

Here’s a teaser of questions we’ll answer:

  • Should you name people by the...
14 days ago
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Nonfiction Writers Are Writing Nonfiction Wrong

Plus the best advice my agent gave me to sell my memoir after years of rejection

If you’re a nonfiction writer who spews all your secret feelings at readers, then your editor may give you notes like, “This is just a chapter venting about a...

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"You Had to Be There": Writing Scenes in Nonfiction

If you've ever said "You had to be there" or "It was funny at the time," then take us there, to that time.

Once more, with feeling, The Most Fucked-Up Shit That’s Ever Happened to Me or Anyone doesn’t have to be your memoir.

2 months ago
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Begin Writing a Memoir at Any Age

This month’s writing session will be about writing memoir, and it will kick off a series on memoir that will go through July, at least.

This weekend, on Sunday, from 4-5:30pm ET, we’ll talk about the hardest part of writing anything: start...

2 months ago
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Marry/Boink/Kill Your Darlings

The writing session recap and recording, plus a list of useless words to cut from your writing right now

There are some universally acknowledged truths about writing. Writing is revising. Writing is rewriting. Writing is reading. Writing i...

2 months ago
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    Author of HYSTERICAL, a semifinalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor / Co-author of INSIDE JOKES: A Comedy and Creativity Guide for All Writers (out Oct. 20th) / Humor writing teacher / Virgo

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