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Personal Essays On Obsession as Creative Practice

Author Bitter Kalli discusses the power of leaning into obsessions to create and how their obsession was found in horses.

Breaking In Writers Digest Breaking In: July/August 2025 Moriah Richard

Write Better Nonfiction Sarah Perry: Go Toward Your Obsessions Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Lester Fabian Brathwaite: Rage Is Reasonable Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Christina Myers: Stop Talking Yourself out of Your Book Dream Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Michael Arceneaux: On Having Time and Space To Write Something More Honest Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Ijeoma Oluo: On the Writing Process Changing Over Time Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction 5 Ways Into Your Lyric Essay Kate Meadows

Write Better Nonfiction Jen Soriano: Writing a Book Takes Faith in Yourself Robert Lee Brewer

WD Competitions 5 Things Writers Should Consider About the Body and Identity Megan Baxter

Write Better Nonfiction How to Write Compelling Personal Essays: 9 Ingredients for Spicing Up Your Writing Elaine Klonicki

Write Better Nonfiction A Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald From the Second Roaring ’20s Raj Tawney

Write Better Nonfiction Two Tips for Incorporating Reportage and Cultural Criticism into the Personal Essay and Memoir Hasanthika Sirisena

Write Better Nonfiction Hasanthika Sirisena: On the Importance of Literature Robert Lee Brewer

Write Better Nonfiction Writing Brilliant Essays Joy Castro

Write Better Nonfiction How to Write a Five-Paragraph Essay That Works Robert Lee Brewer

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