What are five simple exercises to do at home? View all responses I miss the feeling of meditating after a run. It's been more than a minute since I could do either--meditate or run. I miss the screened in porch from when I was a child, too. Childhood was terrifying. It's hard to remember that's true, though, when you meditated and ran and had a huge screened in porch. We might move. I'm tired, but excited. Maybe we can find a house with a screened in porch.

What are some life hacks that you practice? View all responses Cure for writer's block: Go to your local beauty store. Amidst the bundles of hair and packs of spider-dollop falsies, you will find the fake nails. Now, this is important: choose ones you absolutely love. I don't wanna hear that you don't like fake nails. I don't want to listen to you try and tell me you don't love any of them.

Daily writing prompt What’s the longest trip you’ve ever taken? View all responses So much of publishing is just waiting. I've finished my latest WIP, which for now I'll call Project Soft Animals. They say the second book you write after you partner with a literary agent is the hardest book you'll ever write, and they ain't wrong. While drafting WEM had its tough moments, it felt largely like a good long exhale.

Daily writing prompt What’s the bravest thing you’ve ever done when no one was watching? View all responses You know there's a degree to which, should I answer, you will have been watching.

Daily writing prompt What’s a book you never finished but still think about? View all responses I've been in a bit of a funk lately. Previously this has been solved by time, and perhaps that's the problem: I feel like I'm out of that. There's no concrete reason for this. Several ephemeral ones, though. The point is actually that I'm very good at speaking the solution to other people.

Daily writing prompt If you had to get a tattoo right now, what would it be and why? View all responses Had to? Had to? Here's all I'd get if I had infinite money: The UFO For years now I've had this image of a crashed UFO sleeve. It'll be just the shell, the whole thing really decimated by nature, overgrown with all these vines, rusted and soft with moss.

Daily writing prompt What’s a quote that perfectly describes your outlook on life? View all responses In a wash of "suffering is optional"s and "feelings aren't fact"s, my first sponsor said it: "You're gonna suffer either way." The two choices? The suffering of sitting in your own shit The suffering needed to change. Your choice.

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Daily writing prompt What is your favorite quote? View all responses "Happiness doesn't lead to gratitude, you know. Gratitude leads to happiness." --Some chick at the psych ward

Daily writing prompt If you had to give one life-changing tip, what would it be? View all responses When I was twenty I was a size eight with blonde hair down to my ass and nothing at all to do in this world beyond walk. My mom had just died and I wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail. That one book about Reese Witherspoon hiking the Pacific Crest Trail after her own mother's death had not come out yet, so that idea was still unique.

Daily writing prompt Do you think everything happens for a reason? View all responses As a child, my mom once tripped while running inside and slammed her face into the corner of a glass coffee table, splitting the lip entirely. In the emergency room later, she mumbled out to my grandmother "this is worse than being lost." "Being lost?" Gramma said, "you've never been lost."

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Daily writing promptWhat’s your biggest dream?View all responses Baldwin falls between Aubin and Ballard. I would exist at eye-level, and what a stroke of luck that is. Don’t get me wrong. It…

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An event planner, a teen fungi enthusiast, a seamstress, and a nun walk into Longwood Gardens… and then the world ends. From the bones of what’s left, each m...

6'6" autistic virologist falls in love with a Steven Universe style projection of the plague she's trying to stop. A WIP by Holly Baldwin.

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Daily writing prompt What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it? View all responses Here's the thing: I do not doom scroll. For real. Perhaps it would be better if I did; I'd spend less time refreshing my email, playing Overwatch, and rereading a single chapter of a work I've finished; a single sentence, a single…

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