Episode 31: #WriteWhatYouKnow, Your Experience is Valuable
...in which Jess and KJ explain how writing what you know makes for engaging prose. KJ reviews her holiday writing goals, while Jess gives herself a pep talk, “stop thinking about it and do it!”
(#AmWriting with Jess & KJ is available on iTunes and AudioBoom and you should subscribe. Really.)
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NY Times Well
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, Jess Lahey
#AmWriting with Jess and KJ
The Atlantic
Vermont Public Radio
#WriteWhatYouKnow, Your Experience Is Valuable
Locally Laid, Lucy B. Amundsen
The Shephard's Life, James Rebanks
The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owens
What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher, Edited by Lee Gutkind
Searching for John Hughes: Or Everything I Thought I Needed to Know About Life I Learned from Watching 80s Movies, Jason Diamond
Between Breaths, Elizabeth Vargas
Dry: A Memoir, Augusten Burroughs
The Art of Waiting, Belle Boggs
The Singles Game, Lauren Weisberger