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Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Am I the Literary Asshole For Prioritizing My Writing Over the People in My Life?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | August 7, 2025

If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | July 10, 2025

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Have You Considered an Anarchist Approach to Plot?

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on Throwing Bombs, Emotional Movement, and Other Plot Devices

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 3, 2025

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The First in a Five-Part Series on the Craft of Writing by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | June 27, 2025

Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | January 23, 2025

Am I the Literary Assh*le? In Which Everyone Talks Sh*t About Everyone Else

Am I the Literary Asshle? In Which Everyone Talks Sht About Everyone Else

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | February 22, 2024

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Ten MFA Archetypes To Avoid (Becoming)

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By Caroline Zancan | February 3, 2020

Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

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Nina Schuyler's Hard-Won Tactics for Running a Tough Group

By Nina Schuyler | January 10, 2020

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

The Three Words That Almost Ruined Me As a Writer: 'Show, Don't Tell'

Sonya Huber: "Tell. Tell me everything."

By Sonya Huber | September 27, 2019

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