The house smelled like the holidays. Then the phone rang. When justice calls, answer. Read Home for the Holidays on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/michelletennantnicholson/p/home-for-the-holidays #WhenJusticeCalls #TruthTelling #SurvivorVoice #MemoirInProgress #WriteTheTrauma

The house smelled like the holidays. Then the phone rang. When justice calls, answer.

Read Home for the Holidays on Substack:
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#WhenJusticeCalls #TruthTelling #SurvivorVoice #MemoirInProgress #WriteTheTrauma

Hey fam!
I know I don’t post often (recluse, terrified of vulnerability, etc.), but here’s me trying. I’m working on a memoir—expect queer stories, dramatic overthinking, and dog updates as I leap into the new year. Stay tuned!
#MemoirInProgress #QueerWriter
#LGBTQStories #WritingCommunity

"Some wounds scar your body. Others live in your nervous system."
This is my story, surviving CPTSD, medical gaslighting, and reclaiming the body that carried me through it all.
Big news: I’m writing a book!

#WritingCommunity #MemoirInProgress #AuthorJourney #CPTSD #ChronicIllness #TraumaHealing

Writing down the gospel according to South Alabama.
#MemoirInProgress #SouthernStorytelling #GayAndSouthern #WritersOfTikTok #BookTok #LGBTQWriters #BlackAndWhiteVibes #SmallTownStories #QueerWriters

Lucien’s Descent | Lucien Roccomatio | Substack Filed under Literature. Rooted in shadow work, ritual, and memory. Lucien’s Descent is storytelling for those reclaiming the body as myth, weapon, and altar. Click to read Lucien’s Descent, by Lucien ...

"I was not born into silence.
But I was taught to survive it.
To fold in.
To bite my tongue.
To wear masks so well, even I forgot who was underneath."

#ShadowWork
#TraumaAndVoice
#TheSelf
#MemoirInProgress
#Unmasking
#SomaticHealing
#Voice
#QueerWriting

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#MemoirInProgress
#ShadowWork
#SomaticWriting
#CreativeNonfiction
#DescentAsPractice
#SubstackSeries
#TheSelf
#LuciensDescent

I got into a fight behind the library.
Didn’t start it — didn’t walk away either.
It wasn’t about who was right. It was about not being the kid who backed down.

There were no real winners.

#MemoirInProgress #BlakStories #HighSchoolFights #RespectOrElse

☀️ Starting literary agent pitches today!

10 conversations that could change everything for my memoir.

Built my coaching practice through strategic invisibility. Now stepping into the light to advocate for my story. What centered you during pivotal leaps?

#MemoirInProgress #InvisibleThreads

☀️ Starting literary agent pitches today!

10 conversations that could change everything for my memoir.

Built my coaching practice through strategic invisibility. Now stepping into the light to advocate for my story. What centered you during pivotal leaps?

#MemoirInProgress #InvisibleThreads

☀️ Starting literary agent pitches today!

10 conversations that could change everything for my memoir.

Built my coaching practice through strategic invisibility. Now stepping into the light to advocate for my story. What centered you during pivotal leaps?

#MemoirInProgress #InvisibleThreads

I didn’t grow up rough by choice. I grew up rough because the world didn’t leave me many other options. Still here though. Still writing. Still telling the truth, even when it hurts. #MemoirInProgress #BlakAndBrave #WritingLife

Putting in the work on this new memoir and it’s kicking my ass. Every memory, every revision, every gut-punch I thought I buried—resurfacing. But it’ll be worth it. For the queers, the poets, the survivors. Stay tuned. 🖤 #MemoirInProgress #EmanuelXavier #QueerLit

“What Comes Next: The Story Continues…” – Richard White College is done. The memoir is next. The MFA is coming. Sigma Writing is launching. Dreams are chasing dreams now—and we’re just getting started.

College: complete.
Memoir: in final edits.
MFA: begins in August.
Business: launching Sigma Writing Solutions.
Fiction. Teaching. Dreams. Let’s go.
#WritingLife #MFAJourney #MemoirInProgress #BookSky #AuthorSky

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“What Comes Next: The Story Continues…” College is in the rearview—and now the real adventure begins. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be finishing my memoir, applying for jobs in publishing and editing, launching Sigma Writing Solutions, and getting ready to begin my MFA at SNHU in August. Also helping my daughter Ollie start college herself, while polishing Gemini Project, my debut fiction novel.

College is done. The memoir is next. The MFA is coming. Sigma Writing is launching. Dreams are chasing dreams now—and we’re just getting started.

#MemoirInProgress, #MFAJourney, #WritingLife, #EditorLife, #PublishingDreams, #WritingCommunity, #CreativeWriting, #DebutNovel, #TeachingGoals,…

Pilgrims Monument, Provincetown, MA

Google Map view of Provincetown, MA.

Google Map view of eastern Massachusetts.

The Sagamore Bridge (eastbound) - onto Cape Cod.

My own pilgrimage -

A homecoming

Both an introduction and a farewell

Family means many things to me

And nothing at all

#provincetown #capecod #leiden #family #genealogy #thelongroadhome #ancestraljourney #PNWtoPtown #amwriting #memoirinprogress #survival #reclaiming #inheritance #history

Lisa | Writer, Advocate, Survi | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree Brain injury survivor writing my truth. Advocate for the unheard.

I’m writing a memoir about surviving brain injury, pain, and a broken system—and building something real from the wreckage.

Follow my journey, advocacy, and updates here: linktr.ee/lisa.m.meints
#BrainInjury #DisabledAndProud #MemoirInProgress #Neurodivergent

I might not leave.

#writingretreat #provincetown #history #capecod #safeharbor #atpeace #amwriting #amresearching #amreading #writingcommunity #ancestors #wampanoag #memoirinprogress

#Diaries #Memoir #MemoirInProgress #SelfPortraits #Art #FineArt #ChronicIllness

What If You Didn’t Rush It? The Urge to Move, and the Courage to Pause

In my latest post, I reflect on the drive to move — and the courage it takes to slow down instead. It’s about ambition, alignment, and trusting the rhythm of your own becoming.

#APathtoWholeness #SlowGrowth #MemoirInProgress #StillnessIsStrength #Awareness

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Have you ever had a memory that was hard to put into words? Tell me how you found the courage to share your story. #Writing #newwriter #MemoirInProgress #hourofmercy

You can't take the A train to Far Rockaway thru May. Track work over Jamaica Bay.

I grew up in Far Rock, taking the A with no heat or A/C. But h/t to my dad who called for track work in 1973 in the NYT. Ok the last line's a bit much but, like a good writer, he raised the stakes! #MemoirInProgress

I took this pic last May when we stumbled onto a film shoot in Cape May NJ. "What movie?" we asked. A Dylan biopic we learned. It's now up for a bunch of Oscars.

Loved the extras in '60s garb. Likewise for the Johnny Cash tunes; we played 'em in my band way back.🥁🎸🎻🪕 #MemoirInProgress #drummergirl

🌟 Just hit 200 pages on my memoir! 🖊️✨ Reliving the madness, heartbreak, and joy of a life that’s been anything but ordinary. From the West Side Highway piers to poetry slams, nightclub chaos to literary dreams, this is the raw, unfiltered truth. 💥 #MemoirInProgress #QueerLatinoStories #EmanuelXavier

a hand is pressing a delete button on a keyboard ALT: a hand is pressing a delete button on a keyboard

This process is teaching me not just to write but to trust my voice.

Writers, how do you handle that early editing doubt? 🤔

#WritersLife #MemoirInProgress #SetMeFree