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I'm lucky, I know I'm lucky, but I don't feel lucky. I just feel burdened.
By Cary Tennis
May 30, 2008
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Is there something wrong with me? Why can't I just be lovable and outgoing?
By Cary Tennis
May 27, 2008
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What if I have no talent? How can I find out? Who can tell me?
By Cary Tennis
April 28, 2008
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I'm a good writer. Everybody says so. So how come other people get hired?
By Cary Tennis
April 10, 2008
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I do well with things I know I'm great at, but I'm not sure I'm great at writing.
By Cary Tennis
March 12, 2008
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I'm finally starting to create again, but people won't leave me alone!
By Cary Tennis
January 4, 2008
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He spends every day pounding out novels that make everyone else groan, and he insists that we critique them.
By Cary Tennis
December 7, 2007
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She promised a raise and didn't deliver, and acts like I should be grateful!
By Cary Tennis
September 27, 2007
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The perceived inability to write leads to an obvious contradiction -- and an existential crisis.
By Cary Tennis
August 15, 2007
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They may be invisible and their art unsung. But in the age of blogging, editors are needed more than ever.
By Gary Kamiya
July 24, 2007
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When it first strikes you that your book isn't going to be the next "Huck Finn," don't wallow in despair. Take a long walk.
By Garrison Keillor
May 23, 2007
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I don't want to be a laughingstock, but I am a creative type!
By Cary Tennis
April 25, 2007
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Some nameless fear stands between me and my desire to be heard.
By Cary Tennis
February 28, 2007
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Every time I start to work on my second novel, an enormous laziness descends upon me.
By Cary Tennis
February 26, 2007
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At least according to an editor at the New York Times Book Review.
By Carol Lloyd
February 22, 2007
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My big-name literary agent called me and said, "Are you sitting down?"
By Cary Tennis
February 5, 2007
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Why do arts graduate schools, in particular, bring out our vulnerabilities?
By Cary Tennis
February 2, 2007
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I got into the hot creative writing MFA program I dreamed of, but now I feel I don't belong.
By Cary Tennis
February 1, 2007
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Massive online feedback has rocked writers and changed journalism forever. This brave new world is filled with beautiful minds and nasty Calibans and everything in between. Its benefits are undeniable. But do they outweigh its insidious effects?
By Gary Kamiya
January 30, 2007
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I am a New Yorker living like a prisoner in London.
By Cary Tennis
January 29, 2007
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Spare us the self-involved moaning over the agonies of your art. Writing is no harder than anything else, and the complainers should can it.
By Garrison Keillor
May 3, 2006
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I wrote a memoir about life with the world's worst dog. But before my masterpiece hit the shelves, a pooch named Marley stole my thunder.
By Lee Harrington
May 2, 2006
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Decades after she made the "zipless fuck" famous, Erica Jong still has a lot to teach young feminists about sex -- and speaking out.
By Jessica Valenti
April 4, 2006
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In this week's New Yorker, Calvin Trillin writes an astoundingly beautiful portrait of his marriage to his late wife, Alice. Read it and learn.
By Rebecca Traister
March 24, 2006
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When I decided to get a tattoo with a man I'd only known for two weeks, my children worried I'd lost my mind. But I knew that whether it was in ink or emotions, love would always leave me scarred.
By Ann Bauer
March 11, 2006
I got the writing fellowship -- so now I'm terrified!
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