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Behind the scenes of a first book deal
here's how it went for me
Feb 11 • Annelise Jolley
Seven steps to getting published
Advice from a freelance writer
Mar 10 • Annelise Jolley
Things to do today
a short list for the longest night
Dec 21, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
What's real
Anxious thoughts, reality/unreality, and the moon
Nov 29, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
How to get unstuck
an unserious recipe for shaking the words loose
Oct 17, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
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Fall bits & pieces
Oct 7, 2023 • Annelise Jolley
breastmilk is made of blood
Nov 16, 2024 • Annelise Jolley
How to get unstuck
Oct 17, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Hello from Book Proposal Land
Jun 13, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Sour-sweet days
A questionnaire for the turning of the seasons
Sep 19, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
A reverence for birth (pt. i)
Birth can transform you, and I don’t just mean a certain kind
Aug 28, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Two writers on retreat
Or, a short essay on friendship
Jul 17, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Hello from Book Proposal Land
Three years stuffed into 30 pages
Jun 13, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Spring notes: a month in fragments
Mexico City, the world is on fire, plus a writing prompt for you
Apr 25, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
A story that all of us know
fragments on the Annunciation
Mar 25, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Ash Wednesday after a swim lesson
love forged in the body
Mar 8, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
Writing in the margins
Constraints and creativity, and why done is better than perfect
Feb 22, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
The view from here
wildfires, a new poem, other miscellany
Jan 27, 2025 • Annelise Jolley
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