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Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: Writing community, pandemic edition

by Gwen Orel June 14, 2020

No you can’t meet for brunch at a diner — yet. But a writing community is possible during the pandemic, writes Melissa D. Sullivan in “All Write Now.”

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Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: Thank you artists everywhere

by Gwen Orel March 29, 2020

In her latest “All Write Now,” Melissa D. Sullivan thanks artists everywhere. The Philadelphia Orchestra performed to an empty house, on Facebook Live.

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Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: Anne of Green Gables, and audiences

by Gwen Orel February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

“Anne of Green Gables” inspires “All Write Now” columnist Melissa D. Sullivan to think about certainty and baking soda and appreciative audiences.

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Posted inCommunity, Holidays, Top Stories

Real resolutions: New Year’s high and low

by Gwen Orel January 15, 2020March 6, 2021

Montclair Local staff and Montclair residents share their “high,” i.e. aspirational, resolutions, and “low,” or very practical, ones.

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Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: The art of shameless self-promotion

by Gwen Orel November 19, 2019

Self-promotion can be the hardest part of our job as an artist, writes Melissa Sullivan in “All Write Now.” But it’s an essential part of a writer’s life.

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Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: The power of the deadline

by Gwen Orel September 10, 2019

Color-coded planners have always helped writer Melissa D. Sullivan stay on track. The power of the deadline is real, she writes in “All Write Now.”

Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write Now: A writing group helps, but writing is an explosion

by Gwen Orel July 1, 2019

A writing group is great, writes Melissa D. Sullivan in her latest “All Write Now,” but for her, writing is an explosion, and can’t be shared too soon.

Posted inArts, Literature, Top Stories

All Write now: what to write, what to order

by Gwen Orel April 15, 2019

What you feel like eating in a diner, explained by where you are in your writing mood, in the latest “All Write Now” by Melissa D. Sullivan.

Posted inArts, Literature

All Write Now: Writing for the love of writing

by Gwen Orel February 14, 2019

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All Write Now: Looking literarily forward, times six

by Gwen Orel December 23, 2018

All Write Now columnist Melissa D. Sullivan points to six titles coming in 2019 that she’s looking forward to: something for everyone.

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All Write Now: On finding the write one, or playing the field with writing groups

by Gwen Orel November 11, 2018November 11, 2018

It’s ok to play the field to find Mr. or Ms. “Write.”

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Steph Auteri is writing life, and writing sex

by Gwen Orel October 1, 2018October 1, 2018

In “A Dirty Word: How a Sex Writer Reclaimed Her Sexuality,” Montclair writer Steph Auteri writes about using her job as a sex writer as a type of therapy.

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All Write Now: Write with intent, to write well

by Gwen Orel September 15, 2018September 15, 2018

Steph Auteri discovers that writing with intention makes writing better, and easier.

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All Write Now: persistence and lightbulbs

by Gwen Orel July 8, 2018July 17, 2018

Inspiration comes when you work at it.

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