Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & More
You Do You
Arlaina Tibensky
Great writers play to their strengths. If you’re hilarious, let yourself be funny. If you have an ear for dialogue, keep your characters talking
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Fiction, Essays & More
When Working on Your Writing Doesn't Look Like Writing
Lily Brooks-Dalton
We have to support each other in undoing this myth that we are only working when we are literally writing words down. There are plenty of odes...
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Fiction, Essays & More
From Scratch
Bill Cheng
If it is true that a story’s start is visualized as the left-most point on a line plot, then it is also true that a story is a stone fruit—a...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Interviewing for Fiction
Min Jin Lee
If you are fortunate enough to spend time with strangers who will tell you very harmless facts about their lives, very often, you will be allowed...
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Fiction, Essays & More
The Writer's Trove
Alissa Torres
By writing about your experiences, you transform your memories into tangible monuments. You validate what happened to you from your own perspective...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Something to Do with Work as Play: David Foster Wallace and “The Nature of the Fun”
Kristopher Jansma
I find it remarkably comforting that someone who had recently finished a 1,079 page novel ends up right back where any young student does, trying...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Keeping Up the Pace
Alison Gaylin
For every one of my books, there’s been a ‘cut file,’ sometimes hundreds of pages long, of stuff that (much as I may have loved...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Scenes & Summary
Patricia Park
“For years I took the old creative writing adage of ‘show, don’t tell’ to heart. I’d detail every trip my characters took...
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Fiction, Essays & More
An Unfunny Essay About Humor
Mike Scalise
Very often, the most effective humor in writing doesn’t come from a clever concept, or a turn of phrase, or a one-liner, or a bit of killer dialogue
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Fiction, Essays & More
Say Yes to Obsession
Molly Prentiss
Obsession is a large part of being human, and therefore a large part of writing about being human. As writers, we are taught to write toward our...
