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Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #73 – Dream Byline on Pure Michigan featuring Amber Van Karsen

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Amber Van Karsen is a full-time freelance writer from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She has worked as an executive assistant, a copywriter, and a travel writer. 

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Writers’ Rough Drafts – Episode #70 – Dream Byline on The Atlantic featuring Megan Wildhood

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Megan Wildhood is a neurodiverse writer, a saxophone player, and a registered scuba diver. She is an advocate for those experiencing mental and emotional distress, as her work at a crisis center in the city that is ground-zero of this country’s housing crisis galvanized her to devote more of her vocational and creative efforts on behalf of the marginalized. As shared on her website, “I love words; there is no such thing as ‘just semantics.’ Words are worlds. Words create things and change minds without brain surgery. Words matter.”

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Writing and Creating in a Time of Uncertainty

It is a difficult time to be a human in the world right now.

Not insurmountable, but there are challenges. Aside from a sweeping global pandemic virus that currently has no cure, there is the social distancing and isolation, abrupt changes to schedules and lifestyles, fear for health and financial futures, worry about family and friends … the list goes on and on and could really be an entire piece in and of itself.

But you know the circumstances of your current existence, and probably don’t need me rehashing them for your mind to start spinning on.

Instead, we’re going to talk a bit about the reality of writing and creating in times of uncertainty and chaos, why it is important, how entirely impossible it can seem, and how you can overcome that.

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19 Gifts for Writers – Craft Your Content’s 2019 Holiday Gift Guide

It’s officially the 2019 holiday season and, let me guess, you are probably racking your brain to figure out the perfect gift for writers in your life.

Sure, there’s the conventional Moleskine notebook or items of jewelry that feature various typewriters or really fancy bookmarks. But, come on, you want to buy them something that will be not only helpful, but fun too. 

Imagine, it might even give them just the push they need to get that novel finished—turning you into a fairy godmother of sorts. Or it might allow them the space to turn off their writer’s brain and actually relax for five minutes.

But what do you buy for a writer, if you aren’t a writer yourself? 

Have no fear; help is near. I’m here to dish out some of our favorite writer gifts for this year. 

And hey, if you are a writer who always gets the same old writing gifts, and you’d love something new … well, pass this article along to the gift givers in your life!

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