Archive - MFA Lore

Writing Prompt: STAGED

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

5 hrs ago • Aimee Liu

Mine "The Gap"! McKee, Aristotle, and the Art of Surprise in Storytelling

Dramatic Propulsion requires a formula for surprise that's not simple

Jun 13 • Aimee Liu

The New American Story Project Cares, Do You?

Micheline Aharonian Marcom on telling the truth about young asylum seekers

Jun 10 • Writer In The World

Anniversary offer! MFA Lore is 3 Years Old!

A year's worth of MFA-level creative writing advice for 30% off

Jun 8 • Aimee Liu

Story Structure: Lessons That Have Stood the Test of Time

A trip back to my weekend with story guru Robert McKee

Jun 6 • Aimee Liu

Julie Buntin on Writing About Good Bad Women, Gaslighting, and Breaking the Rules to Make Your Writing Stronger

A recording from Aimee Liu's Well Published, Live! series

Jun 3 • Aimee Liu and Julie Buntin

1:09:51

Metaphortography Writing Prompt: TENDERNESS

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

Jun 1 • Aimee Liu

May 2026

Bestselling Supernova Jenna Blum on Her New Send-up of the Book World: 'Murder Your Darlings'!

Jenna talks about switching genres, turning the book industry inside-out, writing funny sex, and exercising her true voice

May 30 • Aimee Liu and Jenna Blum

Why Read the Book If You Can't Stand the Author?

Susan Kim on the psychological value of reading “strange stories” by Robert Aickman, a writer she knows she wouldn't like in person

May 27 • Writer In The World

Orient Your Readers ASAP!

If they don't know where they are, they can't imagine where your story is going

May 23 • Aimee Liu

How to Write a Book Review

Rahna Reiko Rizzuto straddles the line between author and critic

May 20 • Rahna Reiko Rizzuto and Writer In The World

Writing Prompt: EXCLUSION

Visual inspiration + mental exercise to start your writing week

May 18 • Aimee Liu

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