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Chapter 19: A Loaded Shotgun

The Ache of Wanting to Keep What We Know We’ll Lose (June Wrap-Up)

Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay: 10-min Guided Prompt + Gentle Reset

Chapter 18: Switch on the Light

Write the Hard Thing LIVE Replay: 10-min Guided Prompt + Gentle Reset

Chapter 17: The Tweak Room

Write the Hard Thing (Weekly Substack LIVE)

Chapter 16: A Prison Wedding

Silence Was My First Survival Skill

Chapter 15: Mother Infant

The Quiet Surrender Of Loving What’s Here, Not What’s Missing (May Wrap-Up)

Chapter 14: The Mirage

What If the Point Isn’t to Remember It All?

Chapter 13: Running with the Devil

The Shape of Memory

Chapter 12: Auntie Susan

How Do You Celebrate a Mother Who Hurt You?

Chapter 11: Room 318

In the Waiting Place, Where Joy and Grief Sit Side by Side (April Wrap-Up)

Chapter 10: Behind the Glass

Chapter 9: Born Into the Quake

Writing About My Mother in Prison Sent Me into Panic (and What Finally Helped)

Chapter 8: Choking In the Dark

Why Waiting to Be “Ready” Is Keeping You from Writing the Story You Need To Tell

Chapter 7: The Summer of 1985

Stop Abandoning Your Writing (And Yourself)

Chapter 6: Black Holes in Memory

The Fear That Shows Up When You’re About to Write the Truth

On fear, surrender, and what still blooms in the dark (March wrap-up)

Chapter 5: The Color of Abandon

What Growing Up in a Meth Lab Taught Me About Writing the Truth

Chapter 4: Three Hundred Houses and Counting

Chapter 3: Infinity Times the Universe

2,000 Miles, One Van, and a Question I Couldn’t Shake

Chapter 2: The Settled

Chapter 1: The Desert Was A State of Mind

Prologue: The Storm at the Door

Terrified? Same. But I’m doing it anyway.

Women’s desire, rage, and making a life out of one’s art (February wrap-up)

Introduction for my memoir

After five years of rejections, I’m publishing my memoir

The ripple effect of following desire (January wrap-up)

Am I a bad mother for letting my three-year-old rock out to Nirvana?

What I'm letting go + calling in this year