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Writing
Craft talk and writer's-block first aid: editors, drafts, poetic kennings, and the ongoing fight to keep your voice your own.
Higher Education
Succeeding in Your Creative Writing MFA
some tips and tricks from the eye of the storm
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Essay
Writing Beyond Your Genre
How a book on graphic novel writing changed my perspective of narrative craft.
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Writing
How to Get Your Story Read
Advice from a weary editor who is on your side. Ever wonder what an editor is thinking about your story? Usually, just before they start reading, they’re thinking “I hope this is good!” Here’s how to make it good.
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Writing
How National Novel Writing Month Changed My Life
Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. Able to pour my heart and my soul into those 50,000 words, I brought my confused and crazy life into some sort of alignment. For the first time in what felt like a lifetime,
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Writing
The Importance of Rejection
Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider. Something about that older model of SASE envelopes strikes me as important to consider.
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Writing
Richard Wright: The Best American Haiku
With Haiku, a self-nurturing could begin, albeit so close to his own death. Wright offers his perspective, his own loneliness, and his own desire for wholeness within three simple lines of poetry, allowing us to know him intimately at his most vulnerable and his most human.
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Writing
To Write Big, Start Small
Learn the art of weaving description and your reader will never leave. It’s better to make the reader do the work than it is to hand them the finished puzzle.
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Essay
The Rose Within: A Personal Reflection on "The Little Prince"
"Trying to be witty leads to lying, more or less." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery Love, and compassion - which is really just a particularly important form of love - are concepts within The Little Prince - and we adults would do well to pay attention.
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