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The Write Attention is a podcast where we explore the questions and challenges we are paying attention to in our journey as emerging writers
In this debut episode of The Write Attention podcast, Brittany Felder and Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham talk about where they are on their writing journeys and answer questions about discipline and discernment.
Questions
How do you discern what to keep or remove from your writing?
What does discipline in writing mean to you?
Show Notes
Writers, books, articles, ideas and questions mentioned in this episode
Sonya Huber article, “The Three Words that Almost Ruined Me as a Writer: Show Don’t Tell
Sign up for the Sitting in Silence newsletter here: https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
Lauren Samblanet's website: https://www.laurensamblanet.com/
Finding & Nourishing Pleasure in Your Creative Practices; workshop taken through Reinventing Creative Process: https://www.reinventingcreativeprocess.com/
Building Discernment and Trust in Our Editing Practices; workshop taken through Alchemy Writing Workshop & Community Coven created by Hillary Leftwich: https://alchemyauthorservices.com/home/alchemy-writing-workshop-3/
Writing Tools 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
On Writing by Stephen King
Black Writer’s Program Speculative Workshop led by Aaron Talley
The “heat map”
“Sunbathing is Forbidden in the Graveyard” by Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham forthcoming in January 2023 in the Indiana Review
“Move fast and break things”, sadly apparently a Mark Zuckerberg quote, or at least a Silicon Valley mantra, read this book on why this is may not be working out for them.
Everything Everywhere All at Once film
Lauren Groff website: https://laurengroff.com/ ; not the article Jeannetta read but here is an article where Groff references her writing routine: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/
Ben Ferguson’s website here: http://www.benfergusson.com/ . Class was taken through The Reader Berlin: https://www.thereaderberlin.com/
Crystal Wilkinson website here: https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/; Hurston Wright Foundation: https://www.hurstonwright.org/
Ben Ferguson’s website here: http://www.benfergusson.com/ . Class was taken through The Reader Berlin: https://www.thereaderberlin.com/
Crystal Wilkinson website here: https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/; Hurston Wright Foundation: https://www.hurstonwright.org/
This episode was recorded in the late summer of 2022.
The Write Attention Podcast
The Write Attention is a podcast where we explore the questions and challenges we are paying attention to in our journey as emerging writers