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Over the weekend I attended my first of twelve monthly classes in a year-long poetry study at @carnegiecenterlex. “But Megan, you don’t write poetry.” • You are correct. I don’t. At least, not since college, when poetry was my outlet for some very dark times. I’ve always said the reason I stopped writing poetry was because I stopped being sad all the time. 🤷‍♀️ • Here’s the thing- the book I’m working on has a very haunting, lyrical feel to it, and I think poetry might be a great thing to study as I write this book. Because of this class, I am committed to writing 100 poems this year. I expect 94.7% of them to be absolutely terrible, but if I’ll be sure to share with you if I like them. I’ll also be reading one poetry book per month, the first of which are pictured above. • I haven’t read Deifying a Total Darkness yet, but I want to buy The Princess Saves Herself in This One for everyone I know. ❤️ • Favorite poetry book? Go!

When I visited the Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial in Washington, DC a couple years ago, I took picture after picture of every quote. Today, this one seemed like the right one to share: “Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.” • You may feel like you’re just one person, and you can’t change the world. But if we each make small changes, it adds up.

Here’s to all the writers who go completely blank when someone asks, “What’s your book/story/poem about?” • Because to us- it’s about SO MANY THINGS. It’s about the basic who-what-where-when-why. It’s about the past events that brought each character to where they are but never actually made it to the page. It’s all the hidden issues and feelings and emotions we were working through when we wrote it. Some of which are easy to spot, some not so much. It’s about all the days we spent dreaming up these characters and all the nights we spent awake, wondering if we would ever finish this book, wondering if it would make it past our editors, wondering if anyone would even read it if it did. • It’s every single thing that’s ever happened to us, every great name we heard and jotted down so we wouldn’t forget, every random story we overheard, everything we read in the news, every a-ha moment we had to solve a problem—they all blend together into one person at one moment in time and become one story. • If I’d written Between in 2017 it would’ve been a completely different book. • And I’d still freeze when you asked me what it’s about.

I always say I’m proud that I’m their Mom, but that makes it sound like they’re my achievements or something, and that’s not quite it. I just got so incredibly lucky, against the odds TWICE (because apparently I was not designed to have successful pregnancies) and now I get a front row seat to their lives. They are seriously the two most hilarious, kind-hearted, creative, adventurous, brilliant little people, and my favorite partners in crime. And I get to be their Mom! 🤩

This dog. I swear. Ever since Brody died and I decided to allow Dex in our bed, this is how we sleep. He is needier than either of my children has EVER been. 😂 • I don’t get the best sleep but every time I wake up he’s just so cute and sweet and I wanna adopt ten more dogs. • But I won’t. Probably. ANYWAY. I’ve been thinking about how every dog name is always THE BEST DOG NAME. My dogs’ names are Dex and Millie. What are your dogs’ names?

What are you reading right now? Here’s my latest #bookhaul, but I always need more. Give me book recs! Any genre. Don’t say Where the Crawdads Sing. (I know. I will read it at some point, I promise.)

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