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I’ve been thinking a little bit obsessively about my last post, wondering if it’s weird to be thinking so much about something I wrote. But it really bothers me that I came off sounding like I care so much about salary and prestige. That is definitely not how I started out as a young person. […]
I’ve been participating in NaNoWriMo all through November; for those of you who might not have run across this thing, that’s National Novel Writing Month, and the goal is to try to write 50,000 words in a month, or roughly 1,667 words per day. I had a very specific goal in mind, which ran a […]
I know that I’m supposed to be writing more upbeat material here; I’m looking around at what people are posting, and even when it’s about mental illness, it’s still pretty perky. But the tone that’s wanting to find voice through my fingertips right now, after a few hurricanes and a bunch of wildfires near my […]
I’ve spent the last two years intensely focused on writing a novel about a family coping with mental illness. This is a topic that I know about intimately both from the family situation I grew up in and now as the parent of a “child” with bipolar disorder (he’s 21 now). One thing that […]
Elisabeth Levien 