How to Build a Life

by Laura Jane Williams

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How to Build a Life by Laura Jane Williams has 4,000 subscribers, making it a newsletter in Parenting. It publishes weekly with an average length of 1,866 words and charges $7/month for premium content.

Bestselling novelist talking midlife career changes, parenting, and shifting ambition. How exactly do we build a life? (But like, a good one.)

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Length~1,866 words

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