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How I Wrote the Hardest Chapter

Nine drafts, one abandoned narrator and a winter of walking: how the middle of a novel almost defeated me, and what finally unlocked it.

On Writing Marriages That Feel Real

Long partnerships are made of glances, not speeches. Notes on writing the quiet negotiations that hold two people together for decades.

Notes From a Slow Winter of Writing

Some seasons produce pages and some produce patience. A record of the months when the book refused to move, and the walks that kept it…