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Friday Write #077
Good Ideas will be on spring break next week, but you can find plenty of craft notes, writing prompts, and good-natured rambling in the archives…
Mar 22
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The World's First Author Was a Princess
and she got married to the moon
Mar 20
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Emily Chenoweth
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Friday Write #076
“I love everything about books until it comes to writing them.” —Kelly Link Greetings, writers— When was the last time you felt that gentle pull toward…
Mar 15
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Emily Chenoweth
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I am a Human Ear
wisdom from Nobel winners
Mar 13
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Emily Chenoweth
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Friday Write #075
Before Good Ideas came to Substack, I sent prompts out to my writing students via email. Below is a prompt from 2022, with a new intro. Greetings…
Mar 8
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Emily Chenoweth
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The "Most Underutilized Tool in Fiction"
Greetings, writers— For many writers, myself included, a story’s setting can be a bit of an afterthought. I care about characters first, what they’re…
Mar 6
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Emily Chenoweth
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Friday Write #074
Greetings, writers— Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Will the Summer come again? Rain on houses, on the street, Wetting all the people’s feet, Though…
Mar 1
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Emily Chenoweth
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February 2024
No Such Thing as a Mistake
Greetings, writers— When you’re being creative there is no such thing as a mistake. One of the things you might discover when you haunt particular…
Feb 28
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Emily Chenoweth
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Friday Write #073
Greetings, writers— I want to tell you a story that, plot-wise, isn’t much of one; nevertheless I’ve teared up every time I’ve recounted it. It happened…
Feb 23
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Is Writer's Block For Real?
Greetings, writers— Toni Morrison did not believe in writer’s block. “I disavow the term,” she said. The poet Danez Smith doesn’t buy it; nor does Judy…
Feb 21
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Emily Chenoweth
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Friday Write #072
On Keeping a Journal
Feb 16
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Emily Chenoweth
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I Turn Sentences Around
Greetings, writers— In Philip Roth’s The Ghost Writer, which I recently procured and read under the mildly embarrassing and incorrect assumption that it…
Feb 14
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Emily Chenoweth
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