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Use Your Suffering on the Mats, and on the Page

I’m lying face-up on the mats while my Systema instructor presses a wooden stick just under my throat and across my shoulders. He uses his body weight…

Jun 6 •

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See your life and your writing in a new way.

Jan 31 •

Merridith Allen

How to Query Like a Boss, Part One

A guide to writing the dreaded query letter to agents, managers, producers, or directors.

Nov 10, 2022 •

Merridith Allen

TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS

Three days after my twenty-sixth birthday, I leaped off a wild horse in Mexico. OK, maybe the horse wasn’t wild. Maybe he was hot. Maybe his saddle…

Oct 25, 2022 •

Merridith Allen

KEEP GOING! (Or, Gambatte Kudasai)

In 2012, the night before I climbed Mount Tsukuba in Japan, I went out drinking with a gang of Irish ninjas. We had just come from a martial arts class…

Oct 13, 2022 •

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This is Write Like a Warrior, a newsletter about stories from my life on and off the mats, and how to become a kick a** writer..

Oct 12, 2022 •

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Write Like a Warrior

Write Like a Warrior

Stories from my life on and off the mats, and how to become a kick a** writer.

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