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Jill Riddell

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Pep Talk: How to Negotiate a Working Relationship With Frustration

Posted on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 by Jill Riddell

FRUSTRATION is part of the creative process—not an obstacle to it. Embrace, enjoy, laugh at, push past, make fun of, or stare down frustration—but don’t let it stop you.  Don’t…

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Pep Talk: The Case Against More

Posted on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 by Jill Riddell

As the sitter for my two-year old, Sunny Neater never hesitated to set up elaborate games that caused chaos. Sunny was mentally prepared for the aftermath because teaching art had…

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Pep Talk: How to Write When You’re Feeling Scared

Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2020 by Jill Riddell

by Jill Riddell It’s common to oversell both how fabulous it will be to publish your writing and how cataclysmic. We worry that people won’t like what we wrote; in…

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6 Unexpected Places to Write in Chicago (and Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Them)

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2020 by Jill Riddell

by Jill Riddell and Sophie Lucido Johnson Lobby of the Booth Business school at University of Chicago 5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue   Assets: It’s beautiful and big, airy and light….

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