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Many Ways of Visualizing Story StructuresBy Nancy McCabe If you try typing “Narrative Structure” into Google Images, a long string of diagrams will appear, most of them...
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You’ll Never Write in This Town AgainBuckle up. By Allison K Williams I know an editor who is a liar and a thief. Or rather, I know of one. Several years ago, a...
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The Future of CNF Writing, Editing and Publishing in a World with AI, Part 1AN INTERVIEW WITH SIL HAMILTON By Andrea A. Firth Sil Hamilton, machine learning researcher at McGill University, has spent...
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American Breakdown: Crafting a Literary Mystery & Memoirby Marcia Meier Jennifer Lunden In her genre-crossing literary mystery, American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation, My Body’s...
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Thank You, Writer’s Digest!Each year, Writer’s Digest offers readers a list of the 101 Best Websites for Writers, hoping to “guide writers of all ages, genres,...
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“Write What You Want to Know More About”By Dinty W. Moore The tired maxim “Write what you know” is familiar to anyone who has ever lifted a pencil. Starting out on my...
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The Life-Changing Magic of Micro ProseBy Darien Hsu Gee Tell me a story about something true and real and important to you. Now tell it to me in 300 words or less....
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How I Lost 265,000 Words in Two YearsBy Margaret Mandell No before and after pictures needed here. But I did have to write 300,000 words to get to my 35,000-word...
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The Incredible Superpower of FlashBy Dinty W. Moore Brevity magazine turned 25 this year, and understandably, I’ve been asked countless times to define “What makes...
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How to Maintain Your Writing Momentum After You Finish Your MFABy Nancy L. Glass In January 2023, I completed my MFA in Writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Leading up to graduation, I...
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Flashes of Memory: Exploring the Emotional Breadth of Short Form WritingAn Interview with Davon Loeb By Arielle Bernstein Davon Loeb In his memoir, The In-Betweens , Davon Loeb writes lyrical...
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99% Is the Hook: Writing Your Modern Love EssayBy Peter Mountford This year, I have become something of an expert on the Modern Love column . Yes, the column has...
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Inclusivity Isn’t SimpleBy Deborah Sosin In the face of right-wing attacks on diversity, many progressive writers, including me, are doubling down on our...
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Hunting for Truth and BerriesBy Jodi Lee Reifer Writing memoir can be like scavenging for wineberries in the wild bushes of upstate New York. To get to the...
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And Then What Happened? Reclaiming Your StoriesBy Kevin Wood I scoffed at my writer friend’s suggestion that I reframe a particularly dark story in “a more hopeful light.”...
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What Seven Intelligent Women Know for Sure About WritingEd. by Cassie Premo Steele Foreground: Aliya. From left: Elizabeth, Sondos, Shirley, Cassie, (Cassie’s wife, Susanne), Candace....
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Don’t Hold BackBy Sarah Cannon For years, I allowed a few things to hold me back from writing. These are the top three: 1) I had children...
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Tips for Promoting Your First Book: Even When You Feel CluelessBy Jennifer Lang A few months before my first book launches into the world, I find myself, like so many writers trying to juggle...
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Three Books at Once? Say What???By Sue Fagalde Lick I have three books coming out next year: A memoir, a full-length poetry book, and a poetry chapbook. Different...
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Spare, Busy or Retro? In Search of the Right Book CoverBy Ronnie Blair The graphic artist wanted me to judge a cover for my book. Here we go , I thought, with a mixture of...
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Creative Sleep and the Writing Life, Part IIBy William T. Vandegrift, Jr. In an essay for the Brevity Blog titled Creative Sleep and the Writing Life , I explored various...
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Embracing Your Range: Complex Story, Layered VoiceBy Dorian Fox I sometimes catch myself compartmentalizing emotions in my mind, as if each feeling—elation, despair, hope—lives in...
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Blending Genre in Pursuit of Mystery: An Interview with Howard FishmanBy Sandell Morse In December of 2010, musician and culture writer, Howard Fishman was at a party when a song seemed to lift him...
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Hello in ThereBy Harriet Riley A few tables and chairs litter the room. The walls are unadorned. Along with coffee, cake and brownies, this room...
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Good Art FriendsBy Jason Prokowiew This month I spent a week at the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at U-Mass, in workshop with eleven other...
