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Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Mesha Maren on the Sisters of Longing Who Inspire Her Work

By Mesha Maren | May 21, 2024

The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

The Thrill of Discovery: How Hidden Messages Make Fiction Fun

J. Nicole Jones on the Writers Who Create Literary Puzzles and the Readers Who Solve Them

By J. Nicole Jones | May 20, 2024

Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

Better in the Middle: Eight Writing Hacks From a Mid-List Author

Anna Dorn Offers Some Subjective Tidbits For Writers At Any Stage of Their Journey

By Anna Dorn | May 17, 2024

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Magdalena Zyzak Wonders If It’s Possible to Craft Effortlessly Cool Prose

By Magdalena Zyzak | May 7, 2024

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

The Pilgrim’s (Lack of) Progress, Or, Sorry I Took So Long to Finish My Novel, Or, On the Value of Restarting

Justin Taylor on the Book He Started Writing in 2014

By Justin Taylor | April 23, 2024

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Why Television Can Be Our Best Writing Teacher

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How To Write Egoless Prose, At Least For a Little While

By Steve Almond | April 15, 2024

Against Journaling: Dennis Tang on the Joys of Not Writing It All Down

By Dennis Tang | April 11, 2024

What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

Fiona Williams on Using Every Literary Tool Available to Us

By Fiona Williams | April 10, 2024

Katrina Carrasco on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

Katrina Carrasco on the Importance of Female Physicality in Fiction

“I’ll always celebrate tall, strong women in my novels—partly as a love letter to myself, and partly as one to readers.”

By Katrina Carrasco | April 9, 2024

What Fiction Writing Shares With Psychotherapy

What Fiction Writing Shares With Psychotherapy

Emily Howes Considers the Similarities Between Two Therapeutic Practices

By Emily Howes | April 8, 2024

100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel

100 Tips That May (or May Not) Improve Your Next Novel

Ryan Chapman on the Craft and Practice of Writing Fiction (and Drinking Gin)

By Ryan Chapman | April 2, 2024

“No Nights (or Chapters) Off.” And Other Grown Up Lessons From Reading to My Kids

“No Nights (or Chapters) Off.” And Other Grown Up Lessons From Reading to My Kids

Mark Cecil on What He’s Learned From the Toughest Audience There Is

By Mark Cecil | March 26, 2024

How a Train is Like a Novel: On the Phenomenon of Illusory Self-Motion

How a Train is Like a Novel: On the Phenomenon of Illusory Self-Motion

John Holten Considers the Mechanics of Movement on the Page and on the Tracks

By John Holten | March 25, 2024

Style As Survival: On Writing After Death

Style As Survival: On Writing After Death

Joyelle McSweeney Explores the Creative Process That Grief Provokes

By Joyelle McSweeney | March 25, 2024

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