Rachel Jepsen

Jul 12, 2021

How to find your writing “voice.”

Introducing The Long Conversation: The Newsletter

Oct 13, 2021

Stop Getting Rejected For Dumb Stuff

Trying to get published? Avoid these mistakes!

Aug 2, 2021

Process Over Product

On letting go of “done”

Jul 19, 2021

Chaotic Good

Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.

Sep 22, 2021

How Writing Can Help Us With Grief and Trauma

Evidence, explanation, and exercises

Aug 23, 2021

Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof

Writing when everything hurts

Jul 26, 2021

Unstuck Yourself!

Keyword brainstorming, freewriting exercises, my favorite prompts, and more ways to find your next great essay idea

Oct 19, 2021

Who are you writing for?

Write better by knowing your reader

Sep 7, 2021

#94 - Ted Lasso Recap S2 E6: How to tell a friend you’re worried about them

(Spoilers, as usual!) In the this episode of Ted Lasso, Higgins decides to take Coach Beard aside and ask him whether he really thinks it's

Dec 1, 2020

TLC #7: Coming Into Language

"I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed."

Oct 14, 2020

TLC #1: The Instruction of Influence

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Oct 21, 2020

TLC Podcast, Episode 1: The Instruction of Influence

Introducing The Long Conversation: Podcast Edition! In this edited version of Rachel’s first live chat with the Bundle writers, they discuss

Nov 15, 2020

TLC #6: The Omniscient Writer

I dwell in Possibility -Emily Dickinson

Nov 24, 2020

TLC Podcast #6: The Omniscient Writer

After a writing exercise where the panelists explored different career paths they might have followed, Dan, Adam, and Taylor talk through th

Nov 5, 2020

TLC #4: Writing as a Way of Being

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Nov 16, 2020

TLC Podcast #5: Writing As a Way of Being Part II, with Robert Yagelski

Rachel and the writers (including guest panelist Fadeke Adegbuyi!) welcome the author of Writing as a Way of Being, Dr. Robert P. Yagelski—o

Nov 11, 2020

TLC #5: Writing as a Way of Being, p. 2, with Robert P. Yagelski

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Dec 21, 2020

TLC Podcast #8: The Body Question

Having spent the week responding to a prompt—What does it feel like to be alive?—Rachel and the Bundle writers spend their final hour of the

Dec 14, 2020

TLC Podcast #7: Coming Into Language

After talking through questions of editorship and delegating, Rachel, Dan, Nathan and Adam turn their attention to the week’s reading: Helen

Oct 28, 2020

TLC #3: Ask a Journalist, with John H. Richardson

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Nov 9, 2020

TLC Podcast #4: Writing as a Way of Being

Taking cues from Robert Yagelski’s Writing as a Way of Being, Rachel guides the panel through pedagogy. At the end of a taxing week, how can

Oct 20, 2020

TLC #2: The Function of Form

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Dec 4, 2020

TLC #7: **Next Week**

A scheduling update for our next episode

Oct 14, 2020

Introducing: The Long Conversation

The Long Conversation is a weekly live show dedicated to the craft of writing hosted by Rachel Jepsen, Managing Editor of Holloway. Great wr