Author: Amanda Surowitz
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4 Cards for Staying Connected to a Writing Project
4–6 minutesHow can you feel connected to a writing project that you can’t work on as often as you’d like? Maybe by creating a writing altar.
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The Order of Things (Cat First)
2–3 minutesWake up to one cat yelling about his empty belly, or the other silently hooking one paw in my hair and yanking. Find my robe, go downstairs. Lights on, kettle on, shoes on to take the dog outside.
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A Clash of Working Creative Identities
3–4 minutesMy screen floods with text as I finally start filling in the outline for a blog post I’ve wanted to write for months. Other times I tried to write it, my fingernails itched. Something was off. I stepped away over and over, hoping the invisible hurdle would wander off while I wasn’t looking. But I…
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The Ordinary #3: Feral Garden Fairy
2–3 minutesPreparing the soil in my vegetable garden unexpectedly brings up messy feelings of growing up, motherhood, and the fear of losing yourself.
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On Giving New Life to Old Story Ideas
2–4 minutesI didn’t open the red pocket-sized notebook to check its contents before agreeing to my toddler’s insistence that it should be his new toy. Once he slipped off the elastic band holding it closed and started shuffling through the upside-down pages, I recognized the chaotic scrawling handwriting of notes for some past job. There probably…