Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggets is the author of 21 BOOKS, Y'ALL--more than one of them have won awards, including her two most recent: "Black Joy" and "Then They Came for Mine." In this episode, Tracey shares a ton of particulars, or what she called before we started recording her "cheat codes":

- How considering herself a storyteller instead of a memoirist or novelist helps her find her way along her throughline

- How her experience as an English professor shapes her writing practice today (and what advice she gives her student that she no longer observes)

- What walking has to do with creativity

- The specifics of her morning routine

- The exact tools she uses to help her "open up to the page" (I definitely learned some things that I'm gonna be trying!)

For detailed show notes, with links to everything we discuss--plus bonus photos!-- visit katehanley.substack.com.

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