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Meet Me at the Press Club
Let’s talk about words and grit and stories that live on. Or, why I’m launching BOUNDLESS at a press club, not a bookstore
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10 Takeaways from #AWP25
Notes on originality, innovation and courage from America’s largest writing conference. Or, how to be a writer who has something to say and gets…
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We Have So Much to Talk About
A pop-up book talk for BOUNDLESS, with moms, cocktails and stories that crack your heart wide open. + ZOOM EVENT + Listening tour + Stories + Songs…
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‘Meet Me in the Woods’: Song #12 from the Boundless soundtrack
Take a little journey to the unknown, and find your emotional agility. In BOUNDLESS, my newly published memoir, I learn to take risks again.
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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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The Sixteen Superpowers of Memoir Writers
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A Job Description for Writers: Imagine. See. Be.
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Why Writing Your Book Will Change You As Much As It Will Change the World
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Eleven Clever Ways to Quiet Your Inner Critic
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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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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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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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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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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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