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Method Writing: What Novelists Can Learn From Actors About Self-Expression

Method Writing: What Novelists Can Learn From Actors About Self-Expression

Eliza Moss on Channeling the Human Condition on the Page and the Stage

By Eliza Moss | December 4, 2024

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

A Bag Full of Trouble: How I Found My Way Into My Debut Novel

Bryan VanDyke on the Importance of Spontaneity and Chaos in the Writing Process

By Bryan VanDyke | November 18, 2024

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

Linda Grant: “We are all made up of private family legends, we are all novels in the making.”

By Linda Grant | November 13, 2024

Portal to a Forgotten Land: Finding Your Character’s Voice In Old Diaries

Portal to a Forgotten Land: Finding Your Character’s Voice In Old Diaries

Tyler Wetherall on Channeling Her Memories of Girlhood Through Fiction

By Tyler Wetherall | October 23, 2024

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

John Larison Considers the Importance and Responsibility of Writing “the Other”

By John Larison | October 16, 2024

What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

Jamie Harrow on the Similarities Between Chronicling Hard-Won Victories in Love and Athletics

By Jamie Harrow | September 27, 2024

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What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Dungeons & Dragons

By Jedediah Berry | September 26, 2024

Rejecting Denial and Embracing Sorrow: On Writing the Story of a Husband’s Suicide

By Alexandra Marshall | August 27, 2024

More Than a Muse: On Salvadoran Artist and Wife of Antoine, Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry

By Gina María Balibrera | August 23, 2024

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Writing Happiness: Why It’s Worth It to Look on the Bright Side of Stories

Maribeth Fischer on the Joys of Creating Joyful Fiction

By Maribeth Fischer | August 21, 2024

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Choose Your Own Adventure: On the Limits of Personal Agency in Migrant Fiction

Ruben Reyes Jr. Considers the Role of Systemic Power Structures Both On and Off the Page

By Ruben Reyes Jr. | August 19, 2024

A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell

A Marionette in the Milky Way: On Finding Your Way Into the Story You Want to Tell

Lindsey Drager Considers Impermanence, Finality and the Forces of the Universe in Fictional Narratives

By Lindsey Drager | August 16, 2024

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

What Clickbait Tells Us About the Evolution of Print and Online Media

Holly Baxter on the Virtues and Pitfalls of Journalism in the 21st Century

By Holly Baxter | August 15, 2024

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Scheherazade Was a Liar, Too: How Secrets Can Fuel Creative and Personal Exploration

Navid Sinaki on Finding His Voice as a Young, Queer Iranian Immigrant

By Navid Sinaki | August 13, 2024

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Lifting the Curse of Luigi da Porto: On the Life and Legacy of a 15th-Century Italian Poet

Kate Weinberg Finds Literary Inspiration in Romeo and Juliet’s Original Creator

By Kate Weinberg | August 7, 2024

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

Jane Alison on Fictionalizing the Tumultuous and Toxic Relationship Between Architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier

By Jane Alison | August 6, 2024

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