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Graduation Days
My kids graduated from high school!
Jun 21
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Heidi Pitlor
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May 2025
A New Way to Retreat (and Write)
I haven’t said much here about The Breakthrough, the writing retreat that Michelle Wildgen (an excellent novelist and former editor at Tin House) and I…
May 23
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Heidi Pitlor
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Even AI is Frightened of AI: Why Human Creativity is Crucial Right Now
I’m trying to be less lecture-y lately, as I fear I’m becoming That Person.
May 11
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Heidi Pitlor
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Even AI is Frightened of AI: Why Human Creativity is Crucial Right Now
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April 2025
It's Been One Hell of a Week
At 5am the other morning, Keith and I rushed around, getting ready for him to go to the hospital for open heart surgery.
Apr 18
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Heidi Pitlor
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Real Talk
Fresh Dialogue and Unscripted TV
Apr 6
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Heidi Pitlor
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March 2025
Who Really Are You ?
Thoughts about Writing Fictional Characters; a Newsletter That has Nothing to do with the Bropocalypse
Mar 23
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Heidi Pitlor
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Curiosity>Fear: Or, The Power of Storytelling in This Moment
Lately I’ve been trying to stay in a place of “information gathering.” Mostly, I’m buzzing around, freaking out about…
Mar 2
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Heidi Pitlor
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February 2025
7 Tips to Keep Writing Now and 7 Ways to Stay Sane (and a Bonus 2 Happy Things for Writers and Readers).
Here we go again, this time far worse than before.
Feb 2
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Heidi Pitlor
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7 Tips to Keep Writing Now and 7 Ways to Stay Sane (and a Bonus 2 Happy Things for Writers and Readers).
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January 2025
How to Create a Shelter in Your Mind in the Storm
Your current storm may be family or work or politics or money or health, a slew of rejections on the writing front or an agent who has stopped returning…
Jan 11
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Heidi Pitlor
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December 2024
The Afterlife
In Praise of Irrelevance
Dec 14, 2024
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Heidi Pitlor
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November 2024
Self-Restraint in the Hot Tub (and Other Notes from the Kauai Writers Conference)
If only the dreamy Kauai Sonesta were a leeeeetle bit closer…
Nov 23, 2024
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Heidi Pitlor
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What Now?
“Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to…
Nov 6, 2024
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Heidi Pitlor
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