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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

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

Heidi Reimer: “A mother is also a daughter. A daughter may eventually become a mother. Then, forever, she is both."

By Heidi Reimer | May 6, 2024

Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

Rachel Khong on the Power and Potential of Not Knowing

Nicole Chung Talks to the Author of “Real Americans”

By Nicole Chung | April 30, 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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What Do You Get When You Cross the Contemporary Novel with Nature Writing?

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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

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

“But the Ancient Greeks Didn’t *Sound* Irish...” On Capturing Voice in Historical Fiction

“But the Ancient Greeks Didn’t Sound Irish...” On Capturing Voice in Historical Fiction

Ferdia Lennon Considers the Role of Speech and Dialect in Bringing the Distant Past to Life

By Ferdia Lennon | 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

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

Francophone, Anglophone... Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

"I realized I didn't care anymore about my fears, the object of my limitations."

By Musih Tedji Xaviere | March 18, 2024

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

The Sweetness at the Core: Maurice Carlos Ruffin on the Positive, Humanizing Power of Fiction

Considering the Central Role of Community and Solidarity in Stories of Marginalization

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin | February 27, 2024

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Writing Into Negative Space: Shining A Spotlight on History’s Sidelined Women

Kirsten Bakis Explores the Lives of Writer and Paranormalist Cult Figure Charles Fort and His Wife, Anna

By Kirsten Bakis | February 21, 2024

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