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Why I Write to Timed PromptsBy Barbara Krasner During my MFA years, I prayed that each graduate and faculty lecture I attended wouldn’t require real-time...
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The Map We Carry: Writing PlaceBy Sonya Huber Yesterday I drove from my hometown of New Lenox, Illinois, to Columbus, Ohio, a six-hour drive that I’ve made many...
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Writing Difficult Stories: How Do They Do It?By Diane Reukauf “When we write our stories, we change the way we carry them.” That’s what Melanie Brooks said at the end of...
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Going Viral: A Curse and a BlessingBy Joanna Good March 12 th at 7AM, one snooze button away from getting up and getting my kids ready for school, I hit the big...
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Writing a Memoir With My DaughterBy Carol Weis My daughter was five when I got sober. Her dad left four months later. It was a difficult time for us, one that I...
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Meet Me in the Middle: Reflections on 33,000 WordsBy Allison Kirkland As a teenager I lulled myself to sleep with fantasies of a literary life. Lying in my white four-poster bed,...
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Blind Optimism is Better Than None at AllBy Dana Shavin I have been struggling to write the same story for three weeks. About a week in, I thought it was finished, so I...
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Should Writers Ever Look at the Comments Section?By Samantha Ladwig “Do you ever read the comments?” I’m always asked – usually towards the end of a session – when I teach a...
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Left-Brain Right-Brain: A CPA Turns to Creative Writing, With His Dad’s ApprovalBy Brian A. Rendell After thirty years of building a financial career, I did what any self-reflective CPA would do – begin an MFA...
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The Art of Writing MetaphorBy Alyson Soko I once titled a piece Stomach In Knots and Other Cliches . Laden with lots of old sayings —sweep it under the rug...
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Writing Beauty and Meaning—On Your Own TermsBy Michael Copperman I was going through a tough time trying to find an agent a few years ago, and a literary mentor sat me down....
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How A Student’s Hostility Helped Me Become A Better Writing Workshop FacilitatorBy Laura Gaddis When Greg came into the writing workshop that I run at my local community arts center, I was excited to have a new...
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When You Can’t Write: Collage, Craft, CreateBy Yvette J. Green Recently, having finished my manuscript and starting the submission process, I felt lost. There were no images...
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Why Is Humour the Orphan of the Literary World?Good humour writing is seriously hard work By Doug Jacquier It is indisputable that laughing is good for your mind and body....
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Write It Like It Is: The Power of Group FreewritingBy Deborah Sosin Fifteen summers ago, I signed up for “Writing from the Heart,” a workshop on Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the...
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Find Your Query Comps FASTBy Allison K Williams This morning I saw an author’s anguished cry on Twitter: Who will your book hang out with?...
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Snark Comes to SparkBy Ellen Notbohm As I wake this morning after another night of badly broken sleep, I see my pencils sitting there on the nightstand...
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Loss and the Limits of One’s ArtBy Grace Bauer Grief. It’s a destination we try to avoid but all arrive at eventually. It’s as common as the dirt we all end up in....
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Flipping the Switch: How ADHD Helps, Rather Than Hinders, My Writing ProcessBy Nancy Dutra My ADHD brain frustrates me every single day. Scouring the house for my perpetually missing phone and purchasing...
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Living in the LibraryBy Allison K Williams The view from my desk As a kid, I loved wandering the shelves, able to take out as many books as I was...
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I Wanted To Be A WriterBy Abigail Thomas When I was sixteen, I wanted to be deep, whatever that was, but it sounded interesting and nothing about me felt...
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Homing Instinct: Some Thoughts on Being a Writer in ResidenceBy Helen Raica-Klotz “Shit,” I said, staring at the computer screen. I must have said it pretty loudly, because my colleague poked...
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Writing As Therapy: True or Cliché?By Lisa McCarty It’s true, writing can be a therapeutic tool to improve symptoms of anxiety and depression, as well as an effective...
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A New Brevity Issue: Astonishment, Atrocities, The Treaty of Versailles, and Much MoreOur May 2024 issue has launched, with stunning new essays on astonishment, atrocities, aging, weirdness, the facts of life, the ritual...
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Character Development: Lessons from Amy TanBy Beth Kephart In the early pages of Amy Tan’s debut novel, The Joy Luck Club , we meet Jing-Mei Woo shortly after her mother’s...
