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Lisa Ellison is an editor, writing coach, and speaker with an Ed.S in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a background in mindfulness. She has spent the last two decades helping clients and students turn difficult experiences into art and currently teaches courses in memoir, creative nonfiction, and mindful writing practices. Her life story and essays have appeared on NPR’s With Good Reason and in Hippocampus Literary Magazine, Kenyon Review Online, Huffington Post, and The Guardian, among others.
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Slow Pieces Blog
The Effect of Abundance On Your Writing Life
In two days, Americans will celebrate a very different Thanksgiving. In some houses, there will be empty chairs and smaller portions. A few might mask up or sit outside, while in other homes the only sound will be the clink of a single set of silverware against an...
The Big O Versus The Broken Record: Eight Tips for Handling Negative Comparison
In 2000, one of my short stories was a finalist in a writing competition that included entries from five universities in the Louisville metro area. Two hundred people attended the ceremony. Sweat ringed my underarms as the emcee rambled on about honor this and the...
Three ways busyness and productivity derail our writing lives.
Last Tuesday, I made a pact with myself. No social media, election news, or election talk for twenty-four hours. I was taking a much-needed vacation and wanted one more day of serenity before returning to the world. Holy Schnikes was that difficult! My only solution...