At the risk of sounding VERY VERY OBVIOUS I think the hardest part of character-driven writing is writing about human beings instead of ideas. So often I’ll be crafting something and realize, I’m thinking about …
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humans vs. ideas
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catalytic convertor
The other night, Mo and I woke up at 4 AM to the sound of someone sawing his catalytic converter off his car, and then peeling off into the night. (Please note that I JUST …
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hand and foot and mouth and heart
Joe caught hand foot and mouth at day care, and his PERFECT PRECIOUS little hands and feet and face are covered in painful red blisters and bumps and I look at him trying to pull …
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a mother
When you are a Mother, two things are consistently true: you will doubt yourself and you will pee yourself when you sneeze. Unless you are the kind of mother who didn’t grow the baby in …
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to all the young women
For the last month and some change, I’ve been staying at corporate apartments in buildings in Chicago that are filled with literal Young Urban Professionals. Their gyms are teeming with young beautiful women and I …
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six months
Here I am, hemming and hawing over being away from Mo and Joe for TWO WEEKS, making theater, meanwhile my little brother Tim deployed last night to Japan, for SIX ENTIRE MONTHS away from his …
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which came first
My suddenly feeling like my hair is thinning, or falling out? Because of Joe, or age, or both? Or my suddenly being inundated with ads for thinning hair vitamins and serums and shampoos that swear …
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girl with many necklaces
Ingrid gave us all these beautiful tiny notebook necklaces, which reminds me a burning question I’ve always wanted to ask: THE WOMEN WHO WEAR 90 TINY NECKLACES AT ONE TIME, HOW DO YOU DO IT. …
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it’s fine, I’m fine
Coming off of two weeks of travel, family time, writing an episode, having a toddler suddenly, prepping to head off to Chicago for the Notebook for two months, brain fried, with lists and tasks, just …
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WHY WHY WHY
A few weeks back, before heading to a concert, my friend and I spent the whole day texting NOT about how wasted we were going to get that night but instead planning how we would …