What Will We Do for Fun Now? - Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
My parents survived World War II and the Blitz just fine … didn’t they? An essay by me on intergenerational war trauma| janeratcliffe.substack.com
My parents survived World War II and the Blitz just fine … didn’t they? An essay by me on intergenerational war trauma| janeratcliffe.substack.com
The heart can hold both love and grief: brain injury, a neighbor's dog, and my slow path toward healing.| janeratcliffe.substack.com
And why acknowledging this helped to quiet my nervous system| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On the inspiration of tedium, editing word by word, massive research--organizing it and then forgetting everything you learned, writing sex, a path to a book deal, and one of my favorite prompts| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On conjuring the lives of historical figures, forces that guide our writing, observing and listening, affording characters dignity and complexity, and the joy of crawling babies!| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with Writer and Public Speaker Issa M. Mas| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
And why acknowledging this helped to quiet my nervous system| janeratcliffe.substack.com
A contemplation of the nature of reality, the legacy of the British Empire, and the impact of Boarding School Syndrome| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer R.L. Maizes| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On feminist collective liberation, safe and unsafe spaces, freedom from the hardest thing, and let's stop hating our bodies!| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On the glory of friendships that start out rough and messy and end up steady and tender and peaceful.| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with mother and writer Isabel Cowles Murphy| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On writing about others as an act of love, the emotional beat of writing, what happens after you finish your final draft, and a really fantastic prompt!| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On writing in seasons, daily writing practice, hearing your own words, brutally honest feedback, the easy and hard parts of memoir and fiction, and balanced and fair writing.| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On not abandoning ourselves, the job of staying well, healthy sponsorship, and the miracle of Pepita!| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On turning people into your personal god, confronting bullies, truth as the safest place in the world, compliance and codependency, and the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves.| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with poet and teacher John Allen Taylor| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
George Saunders, Rene Denfeld, and Brandon Taylor offer guidance for when you want to write but can't figure out where to begin!| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On a day in the life of a writer, organizing extensive research, braiding narratives, vulnerability, and how to know what you're supposed to be writing about.| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On the downside of resilience, the privilege to have feelings, freedom from anxiety, mothering oneself, mothering two children, empathy, why poor people can't have nice things, and horses!| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On war, being a caregiver to a wounded husband at twenty-one, self-care, waking up to trauma, learning to like yourself, and the healing magic of friendship| janeratcliffe.substack.com
After my mom's death, I considered the role everyday objects play in a good death.| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On how the patriarchy is changeable because it's all made up, the power of intuition as resistance, how being hopeful can make good things happen, and the importance of history.| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer, editor, and teacher Karen Palmer| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On the shock of death. And the endlessness of love.| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On reading and loving and more reading and more loving and abandoned spaceships!| Beyond with Jane Ratcliffe
On The School of Whatever Works, rituals and objects, portals to the blank page, writing about others, and not taking ourselves so seriously,| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On war, being a caregiver to a wounded husband at twenty-one, self-care, waking up to trauma, learning to like yourself, and the healing magic of friendship| janeratcliffe.substack.com
On grace, ubiquitous faith, boundaries, God as source, doubt as a form of faith, manifestation as arrogance, and the stories we tell ourselves. Plus: A Book Giveaway!| janeratcliffe.substack.com
The Body, Brain, and Books: Eleven Questions with writer Anne Kadet| janeratcliffe.substack.com
