Archive - Writerly Things with Brooke Warner

January 2025

Moments That Matter

Join me live on Sunday, Feb 2, to put meaning to the moments that have informed your life story

Jan 26 •

What the TikTok Ban and Facebook *uckery Mean for Everyday Authors

Here we are on the eve of Trump 2.0.

Jan 19 •

The limits of language in our most emotionally upending moments—and why to write through them

Jan 12 •

Opinion and Rebuttal to Jane Friedman's Key Book Publishing Paths, 2025-2026, from the Queen of Hybrid

Jan 5 •

December 2024

Out with the Outdated, the Errors, and the Broken Links

An easy and necessary (though admittedly not fun) New Year's challenge for writers to update your online presence

Dec 29, 2024 •

10 Cool Writing- and Book-Adjacent Things That Make Me Happy This Holiday Season

with a birthday shoutout to my favorite kid!

Dec 22, 2024 •

Threshold Moments

The Chaos, Promise, and Absorption of Initiations

Dec 15, 2024 •

So You Want Your Scenes to Matter? (Memoir Primer Part II of II)

Harnessing the power of reflection in a genre where "meaning" matters more than "what happened"

Dec 8, 2024 •

So You Want to Write Good Scenes? (Memoir Primer Part I of II)

On staying grounded in place and time and resisting the urge to drift out of scene

Dec 1, 2024 •

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