On the value of disorientation and the practice of taking risks:  
Ploughshares: PS, “Losing My Maps”
https://pshares.org/ps/ps-losing-my-maps/

Nominated by the Ploughshares editors for the 2027 Best of the Net anthology

Concerning books about women with secret lives: 
https://lithub.com/author/bonniefriedman/

About how to better remember what you read
https://theamericanscholar.org/its-all-in-your-head/

In praise of flat characters
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-big-flat-characters-in-fiction

My playlist for DON’T STOP
https://largeheartedboy.com/2026/04/23/bonnie-friedmans-book-notes-music-playlist-for-her-novel-dont-stop/

Dealing with rejection, self-attack, and other yucky traits
https://lithub.com/so-what-is-it-about-writers-and-emotional-masochism/

Using recognition and reversal to strengthen your work
https://agnionline.bu.edu/blog/when-things-flip-all-the-way-around-recognition-and-reversal/

What to do when you keep writing the same scenes
https://lithub.com/what-happens-when-i-dont-understand-my-own-novel/

What it really means to write from experience
https://agnionline.bu.edu/blog/what-it-really-means-to-write-from-experience/

On the pleasure of diving into the details
https://lithub.com/bonnie-friedman-on-the-pleasure-of-diving-into-details/

How an atlas can change your imagination and life
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-book-of-maps/