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Paint one wall
The simplest shifts in our writing habits can have the greatest impact This is Roots + Branches, a free newsletter on the craft and joy of writing and creativity by Root creator and award-winning author Julia Skinner. I hope it supports you in your creative journey! For the last 8 years, I’ve needed to paint…
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Roots and Branches
Writing tips and inspiration from a fellow author As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve started sharing some thoughts on writing as process and practice in recent months. For various reasons, I’ve decided to shift that writing conversation into a sub-section of my newsletter that people can subscribe to separately (though I hope you’ll subscribe to both!)…
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Roots and Branches
Finding the magic in a regular writing practice Welcome to Roots and Branches, the new/old version of my newsletter where I talk, in part, about learning to value process as much as product. And how focusing on process, and specifically on a joyful, sustainable, peaceful writing process that’s a refuge from the stresses of daily…
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Despairing about the state of the world may feel rational, but these are irrational times Everyone I’ve been talking to lately is moving through a sort of oscillation, wavering between intense hopelessness and sadness (personally or collectively) and a deep, unflappable knowing that everything is going to be ok. It’s a jarring feeling, particularly if…
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History requires us to be active participants in its creation. We aren’t just passive consumers of history, but active creators. Our daily decisions, our habits, from what we eat to who we engage with to our sleep patterns, clothing, and job schedules all become patterns that connect to the ways we define a given age.…
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We are living in a liminal moment. For the last few months, maybe a bit longer, everyone I’ve spoken to has seemed almost at the threshold of something. Some element, or maybe even most elements, of their life as it was have crumbled away, and while in most cases we recognize this crumbling as an…
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