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A writer wakes up every day hoping each day would be the day he finally manages to write, though each day he finds new reasons to delay his writing.
A rejected author ponders his writing abilities and lonely existence as he experiences his monotonous daily life. After one of his stories is rejected yet again, he receives a mysterious letter regarding the unpublished story that offers new hope.
A writer struggles to craft a story and begins to lose his own sanity when an idea finally comes to him.
A mother reflects on her past struggles with addiction.
A mentally-ill, suicidal man writes letters to different people about prominent memories in his life from his birth onwards—some nostalgic, some thankful, some apologetic, and some confessional.
A man walks with a writer around London who tells him about the novel he wrote that was lost which can never be matched in beauty by any other.
A man experiencing writers' block finds inspiration on a spontaneous trip to the home of near-strangers.
When a serial writer decides that he can’t take more of his monotonous life, he destroys his copywriter and leaves his domestic prison to protest the rise of the machines.
A writer arrives at an eerie residency near a lake where she camped with her Girl Scout troop as a child. The writer revisits a past trauma at the hands of the other Girl Scouts and comes to conclusions about what it is to reside in one's own mind. Along the way, she navigates a mysterious illness, a fellow resident whose identity and words are impossible to remember, and the appearance of a severed rabbit on her doorstep.
In a post-apocalyptic Vermont of the near-future, a former writer picks up her old craft once more in an attempt to document the before and after of her resource-starved, disease-plagued world.