The Seven Stages of Writing Grief

The inevitable cycle of love/hate/love/hate/surrender

Susan Orlean

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  1. I am going to write something that is going to be a HUGE breakthrough piece for me. It’s going to sound different from anything I’ve ever written. It is going to be epic. I will not fall back on all my tired habits and threadbare vocabulary choices and familiar tone: I am going to be reinvented. The future is MINE.

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Susan Orlean

Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)