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The Sixteen Superpowers of Memoir Writers
Make These Decisions on the Front End, and All Will Go Well for You
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Carolyn Flynn
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The Art of Montage: How to Take Your Readers on a Wild Ride
It’s the sweet spot between scene and summary, so try it! Here's why only 300 words of the twins’ childhood get on the page of my mom memoir, and other…
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Carolyn Flynn
The Self As the Highway to Our Stories
Notes from a Reluctant Memoirist, Or Why I Keep Getting Pregnant with Memoirs When I’m Really a Fiction Writer.
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Carolyn Flynn
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Boundless Has a Birthdate!
My memoir about how we are always becoming someone new is arriving with perfect timing -- on a day of rebirth, Winter Solstice, which happens to be my…
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Carolyn Flynn
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The Merit of the Maker, and the Democracy of Ideas
If you’re writing, you’re publishing. If you’re publishing, you have critics. Here’s how to make peace with that on the front end. Hint: meritocracy is…
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Carolyn Flynn
Why My Book is Nothing But a House of Cards
The true purpose of memoir is to transform your tired old narratives into new meaning. In Boundless, my forthcoming memoir, I find personal liberation…
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Carolyn Flynn
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Why the Acknowledgments at the Back of Your Book Are a Gratitude Practice
Yes, you belong to this party! You’ve worked hard to create a literary ecosystem around yourself. Now it’s time to give back. Here’s how to relish…
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Carolyn Flynn
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How I Meet My Readers, How They Greet Me
Plenty of us have found ourselves at a crossroads where we desperately need a life change. In Boundless, I show you how to get beyond yourself and…
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Carolyn Flynn
What is Besieging You? Or, How the Onslaught Became My Memoir, Boundless, and Life Turned into Art
In response to the parade of sorrows and disasters, I am tempted to form a Mercury Retrograde support group. Instead, I turn to poetry.
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Carolyn Flynn
From Lived Experience to a Book: The Path of My Memoir, Boundless
A TIMELINE OF SORTS
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Carolyn Flynn
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Why I Wrote Boundless, and Why It Wouldn’t Let Me Go
My becoming-of-age memoir, to be published December 2024, is a love letter to my twins — and path to reinvention
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Carolyn Flynn
A Job Description for Writers: Imagine. See. Be.
HOW TO CULTIVATE IMAGINATION AS A SUPER-SKILL, AND OTHER NOTES ABOUT AWE, ATTENTION AND FOCUS. PLUS, A DATE WITH YOUR MUSE.
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Carolyn Flynn
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Solstice Child
In honor of the publication of my memoir, Boundless, today, I offer you a contemplation on Winter Solstice. With a little homage to Rainer Maria Rilke…
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Carolyn Flynn
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