In fiction novels a writer runs the same risk of writing with too much of an edge. Positioning a trigger warning at the start of a novel is not enough to preserve the hook. Simply put, how a reader 'feels' while reading is a critical factor in DNF.

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Nonfiction MFA Alumnus Alexandria Haynes on Navigating Trauma Writing: In the Midst : School of Professional Studies | Northwestern University Summer reading lists abound and we thought we’d ask various members of our community to share what they’re reading or recently read and enjoyed. Here is a sampling of different books that have have ...

Sharing here a new Word Cafe from recent MFA alumnus, Alexandria Haynes!

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#amwriting #writingcommunity #traumawriting #writing #mfaincreativewriting #creativewriting #nonfiction #memoir #personalessay #essay

The Project It’s been a really interesting life.  I don’t say that from a despondent sense. It’s true: last night, when we got home from taking Porter back to UGA, I hid in our bedroom, just after dark, t…

About the project....

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#fictionalizedmemoir #psychologicalthriller #traumawriting #bipolarlife #scrivener #creativetherapy #writingcommunity

The Comfort of the Macabre A Short Essay by M. Allshouse

So if you find peace in cemeteries, or comfort in the sound of rain hitting headstones — don’t flinch from that. It doesn’t make you strange. It makes you honest.

Read the full essay on Unclaimed Ink: open.substack.com/pub/wordsbym...

#MAllshouse #SpookySeason #Macabre #Darkwriting #traumawriting

Crossing Over: Blogspot to Substack for Original Neuropsychologic Research My journey from Blogspot to Substack: decades of research, aphantasic writing, and original frameworks on human development reaching readers directly.

From Blogspot archives to Substack: discover original research, aphantasic writing, and concepts in psychology, #philosophy, and mind. #TraumaWriting #NeurodevelopmentalResearch #PersonalityDisorders

Blood Rust Anger doesn’t purify. It corrodes. This is the aftermath

Forget fire. This is rust.
Final entry in Rust and Silence Series.
It goes live, 28th July 6AM EST Time
Link below:
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#ShainParwiz
#RustAndSilence
#AngerDoesNotHeal
#PoetryAsRefusal
#TraumaWriting
#shainparwizwrites
#SurvivalIsNotRecovery

When The First Monster You Meet is Your Mother A Life Seen Through the Hannibal Lecter Universe

🖤 "When the first monster you meet is your mother."

I wrote about trauma, horror, and the twisted comfort I found in Hannibal Lecter.
Read if you’ve ever loved a monster — or been raised by one.

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#Hannibal #FilmEssay #MentalHealth #Horror #TraumaWriting

I wrote a grief-soaked, glitter-drenched, Chili’s parking lot confessional.

Baby Back Bitch is out now.

Link in bio. Tip your waiter.

#QueerPoetry #LatinePoets #GriefPoems #TraumaWriting
#SoftnessWithSpine #BabyBackBitch #LGBT #LGBTPoetry

Some letters aren't meant to be sent. Just read, by ourselves, in silence.
#blueskypoets #poetryofbluesky #mentalhealthpoetry #lettertomama #quietgrief #healingthroughwriting #traumawriting #emotionaltruth #rawpoetry #latenightpoetry #spokenwounds #writingthroughpain #softwriting #poetrycommunity

It took me some time to realize,
my mother is human as well.

#poetry #poemsofinstapoets #mentalhealth #motherdaughter #traumawriting #notespoem #rawpoetry #healingjourney #fracturedmind #blueskypoets

I didn’t write Ink, Blood, and Prayer to be pretty.
I wrote it because I was bleeding and needed somewhere to put it.
This is for the ones who relapsed
#InkBloodAndPrayer #RecoveryPoet #SocialistWriter #HarmReduction #PoetryOfSurvival #AddictPoet #TraumaWriting #QueerAuthor #DisabledPoet #LeftistLit

Today is the day!

My website is finally live, please read through my trigger warmings and come check out my $1.99 digital landscape prints!!!

#survivinglifecanbeabtch #bealewisphotography #websitenowlive❤️ #2dollarprints #traumawriting #whatsyourchildhoodtrauma #timetospillthetea☕ #spillingthetea☕️☕️

Delighted that my essay on Denise Riley's trauma poetics has been accepted by the peer-reviewed Poetry as Therapy journal in the US. The essay is based on my MA dissertation at UEA. #poetry #UEA #traumawriting

because God loves the wasp by Elisabeth Blair because God loves the wasp by Elisabeth Blair

"because God loves the wasp" by Elisabeth Blair touches on the troubled teen camps currently being spotlighted on @netflix. Consider reading this poignant and emotional collection.

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#book #tti #oregon #theprogram #netflix #poetry #traumawriting #writers