The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a poem considering what you see without focusing on its meaning, a short story based on a mysterious occurrence, or an essay about your New Year’s traditions.
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The Year of the Villain: Discovering the Engine of Story Through Your Antagonist
Valuable lessons about characterization, the fundamental core of storytelling, can be found in the panels of superhero comics.
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Order Out of Chaos: Revising Your Poetry Manuscript
An author suggests several strategies for ordering a poetry collection that can help poets generate new poems to make a stronger, more cohesive book.
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Telling #Stories: Can Social Media Make Us Better Writers?
The effects of social media on the creative process—although it can help writers identify and pay attention to the quotidian moments of their lives, does it siphon off their storytelling energy?
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Craft Capsule: Craft Is Not Objective
The author of Horsepower examines and resists the racism and subconscious anxieties that infect the U.S. literary imagination.
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The New and Enduring Secrets of Writing Past Dark: A Q&A With Bonnie Friedman
The author of Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distractions, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life talks about the impetus for writing the book, response after its publication, and its lessons for a new generation of writers.
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Kurt Vonnegut on Writing and Talent
The legendary author of Slaughterhouse-Five explores some of the fundamental questions facing aspiring writers.
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Dream House as Interview: Q&A with Carmen Maria Machado
In her new book, In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado reimagines the memoir form by examining her personal story of domestic abuse using different tropes and shines new light on the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.
Name a Song: A Conversation With Reginald Dwayne Betts
Reginald Dwayne Betts, whose latest poetry collection, Felon, is out now from Norton, sits down with poet and activist Mahogany L. Browne for a conversation about political poetry and the realities of the U.S. prison system.
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The Turn: Harnessing the Generative Power of No
The author of eight books, most recently the story collection Suicide Woods, on turning career pitfalls into successes, the truly amazing things that can happen when someone says no, and how the only true failure is to stop trying.
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