Is longform fiction dying? Everywhere we’re told attention spans are shrinking, readers want brevity and writers should be adding flash fiction or essays to their repertoire. So today I’m speaking …

Bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne discusses the importance of pacing for emotional impact in fiction, along with five practical pacing tips.

What every creator should know before signing a contract—protect your work, your time, and your well-being.

I was looking for something this morning and I got lost in the archives.

By Laura Zinn Fromm Two days ago, I nudged/nagged a student to turn work in. Our writing workshop meets Thursdays at noon. The deadline for submitting is Tuesday at noon. I emailed the student on T…

On clichés, metaphors, overwriting, and self-editing strategies

Soon it will be NaNoWriMo time! The official National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) organisation closed earlier this year, but the writing world is still hard wired to Nano in November, come what may. (What’s NaNoWriMo? A worldwide event where the aim is to write a work of 50,000 words in just the 30 days of November.) This year there are several official alternatives, if you like to be official.

By Kathryn Nuernberger Be forewarned, I tell my creative nonfiction students, I don’t know how to write stories, I only know how to write knots. I tug on every thread a subject has to offer. Ideall…

It’s bonus episode time again and we’re playing Dave Morris’s unique take on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. This is a digital gamebook (played on iOS) which always make for an interesting departure from...

Soon it will be NaNoWriMo time! The official National Novel-Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) organisation closed earlier this year, but the writing world is still hard wired to Nano in November, come what may. (What’s NaNoWriMo? A worldwide event where the aim is to write a work of 50,000 words in just the 30 days of November.) This year there are several official alternatives, if you like to be official.

Does your character self-medicate to deal with life’s upsets? Use this list of behaviors and fallout to show how this hurts them.

From First Ideas to First Night

By Allison K Williams The Walking Library in London “Writing an essay collection or a memoir is an act of generosity. A common misconception is that these kinds of books are all about the aut…

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