Holiday Catalog: Picks for Kids!
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Fiction, Essays & More
How to Steal Stuff
Elizabeth Gaffney
My first theft was almost an accident. It was a pair of clip-on rhinestone earrings, glittery and bright….I put them on…somehow, I...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Writing to the Tension
Andrea Chapin
If you have an idea for a short story or a novel and want to get started, write a scene that feels urgent, important, and essential
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Fiction, Essays & More
How Walter White Can Make You a Better Writer
Martha Southgate
I’m proud to admit that I was and am an obsessive fan of Breaking Bad. When Walt, Jesse and all their friends left us on that Sunday night three...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Inventing Time
Laura van den Berg
Time frames our experience in the world, yet time is never stable: it is always moving. This morning, I walked my dog from Carroll Gardens to...
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Fiction, Essays & More
Three-Dimensional Writing
Alison Gaylin
I love a good suspense story—the type of dark, twisting tale that keeps me on the edge of my seat, turning pages, barely able to wait for what happens next
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Fiction, Essays & More
How to Get Out of the Slush Pile
Dawn Raffel
Here’s a literary puzzle: Inboxes all over the world are filled to virtually bursting, yet editors and agents frequently lament (in private)...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Playing With Status
Judy Sternlight
As an independent developmental editor who specializes in fiction, I help writers to fine-tune their novels. Sometimes a central character needs...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
How to Start Your Novel
David Gordon
Of course there is no one way. When it comes to writing, my motto is “whatever gets me to the next page,” but page one is often the hardest
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
Dialogue or Conversation?
Jason Starr
I learned a lot about crime fiction writing in an odd place—the theater. While I was completing my MFA in playwriting at Brooklyn College, I...
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWriters on Writing
The Hidden Power in Each Perspective
Kathleen Alcott
Perhaps because it’s the narrative mode that most resembles our interior as people, first person narration is the natural impulse of many developing writers
