Dear Writer

Dear WriterINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith distills creativity and the craft of writing with a practical guide perfect for fans of Elizabeth Gilberts Big Magic and Anne Lamotts Bird by Bird. Drawing from her twenty years of teaching experience and her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life, Maggie Smith breaks down creativity into ten essential elements: attention, wonder, vision, play, surprise,

Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s

Guinevere's childhood isn't the enchanted idyll her mother’s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral

Rushing through the snowy forest

Never going to happen

They say you can never tame a wildflower

class struggles push into every part of society

the Land of Enchantments

the moose and the beaver have been so busy getting ready for Christmas

she is met by unrest in her community and protests surrounding intellectual freedom

and the adopted daughter of an overachieving family

alone or in a group

Jessica and Jack have the perfect marriage