Writing in Place: A Mess

Announcement: The Slow Novel Lab is open for a special summer benefit session, with 50% of the profit going to Direct Relief! Nina examines messiness and her complicated feelings about it, both in herself and in others. She invites you to spend some time with a mess of your own--not to clean it up, but to see what it offers you in your work. If you’d like to share your mess, or what you wrote about it, or your experience of writing (or not writing) during this time, we'd love to hear from you! Use the hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. And you can see scenes from Nina's messy apartment, too. Follow along with the project on Instagram at and

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Writing in Place: A Mess is an episode from Keeping a Notebook by Nina LaCour.

This episode is 00:06:34 long.

This episode was published on May 18, 2020.

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