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Go Deep!
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I Wrote Five Books With ADHD
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Your Publishing Questions (Finally!) Answered
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Writing with ADHD, Part 2
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Voice Lessons
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The a la Carte Workshop
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Let's Distract Ourselves with Zillow!
I'M NOT STRESSED ARE YOU?
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Rebecca Makkai
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Let's Make Things Tense
More thoughts on openings... (part 2)
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Rebecca Makkai
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Hey, Short Stuff!
a new short story class, a book contest, and the best Sudanese short story collection I've ever read!
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Rebecca Makkai
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Where Do We Even Start?
No seriously, where do you start a story?
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Rebecca Makkai
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731 Weirdly Specific Writing Prompts, Batch 2
(184-366)
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Rebecca Makkai
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What Happened When I Posted 731 Writing Prompts Online (part 1)
(Also, here are 183 of those prompts!)
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Rebecca Makkai
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From Your Overextended Correspondent
(My failure to do less, and all the stuff I did instead)
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Rebecca Makkai's Substack: mostly writing and books! but also Zillow, true crime, etymology, food, general inanity
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