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Need a Little Tenderness in Your Writing? Let Music Open the Floodgates
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Staking Out Your Story, Part 3: Beats
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Staking Out Your Story, Part 2: Raising the Stakes, From Beginning to End
Birthday Special: The All-time Best of MFA Lore's Craft Essays for Creative Prose Writers
'Turning the Screws' of Story Construction with Henry James
Staking Out Your Story, Part 1: Signaling the Heart of Character Motivation
This Day, in Infamy and History
A Special Thanksgiving Gift of Tenderness
Step Away From the Vehicle, and Other Expert Tips to Improve Your Work
Notes From a Big 5 Book Rollout Meeting
Confessions of a Playwright Cast as a Dramaturg
A Year of MFA Lore for Half the Price!
Agents Today! Well Published Live with Kimberley Cameron
The Power of Letters in a Broken World
Put Your Characters on the Couch
Counting the Writerly Pleasures of Words
Writing Prompt: Can't STOP the Feeling
The Magic of Narrative Nonfiction with Pulitzer Prize-winner Ed Humes
What Writers Can Learn From Vincent Van Gogh
Braiding Drama and Conflict: Why Your Story's Context Matters as Much as Its Plot
Hearing Your Work Out Loud Will Make It New
Don't Let Fear of Family (FOF) Block Your Writing Path
When Writers Talk, They Talk in Annotations
What to Expect When You're Birthing a Book
Disability in Nazi Germany Revisited
New Rules: Metaphortography as Writing Prompt!
Stretch the Limits of Your World By Writing News As Story
Book Publicity Secrets: Pro Tips from Veteran Book Publicist Megan Beatie[Part 2]
H.G. Wells Has Some Advice For Us
Is Your Spine Strong Enough To Support Your Story?
Let's Make Theatre a Cultural Force Again!
How to Write Authentic Fiction: Trust Your Characters, Welcome Surprise
From Doubters to Believers: How an MFA in Creative Writing Transforms Your Professional Life
Call & Response: Help Me Share Your Literary Concerns with Maxine Hong Kingston
Creative Generosity Is an Art For All of Us
Warning From Your Book's Legal Dept.
Second Time Around For 'Apples and Oranges: My Journey Through Sexual Identity'
Authors Unfiltered: The Power of Niche Audiences
Learning to Write Without Writing
Terrific Raw Material. Now What Are You Going To DO With It?
From Slave Ship to Luxury Cruise: A Black Family's Atlantic Journey in 1970s America
What Shape is Your Story Structure?
"Each story I write is a love letter to our queer worlds"
The Final Push To Book Publication
What Is Narrative Density and Why Does It Matter?
Boost Your Character’s Inner Life
Authors Unfiltered: On Agents!
Well Published! with Bridget Crocker, author of the debut memoir ‘The River’s Daughter’
Poetry as a Tool for Educational Equity
How to Read a Royalty Statement
Writing by the Seat of Your Pants
On Writing 'The River's Daughter'
The [Good] Danger of Art that Bypasses the Brain and Goes Straight to Your Heart
How My Chinese Uncle Became an All-American Hero
Best Selling! When Authors Hit the Big Time
How to Write a Bestselling Multiracial Thriller
Beyond the Three-Act Structure
What Agents and Editors Crave: A Core Concept That's Unique, Universal, & Urgent
Finding Words For the Unspeakable
Authors Unfiltered: Life as a Published Author
Authors Unfiltered: Life as a Published Author
Chinese-American 'Transplants': A Conversation with Daniel Tam-Claiborne
Your "Take 5" Packet Letter & Monthly Seminar
What's in a TAKE 5 Packet Letter?
Got a Writing Situation That Feels Impossible? Remember the Sugar Balloon!
Where's The Heat in Your Story?
Someone had been listening. That was how I got my agent.
Writers! Interrogate the WEIRD!
Can We Find the Voice of Our Better Selves as Trump Takes America Down AGAIN?
Family Secrets: A Storyteller’s Bounty, or Curse?
7 Delightful Career Benefits of Writers' Conferences
WRITERS' ALERT: Stop LibGen From Stealing Your Work!
Ghosting Ins, Outs, Ups, & Downs
What Good is an MFA After You Get Your Degree?
Introducing Agent Bravura Anna Sproul-Latimer
Another Bounty of Stacks for Writers
Grow Your Stack With Help From Medium
NEW Writerly Wisdom From Publishing Pros I Know!
What Can You Write That Will Make a Difference?
Writers, Acknowledge the Monster Within
The Good, the Bad, and the Meh
4 Questions for Literary Agent Caryn Karmatz Rudy
A Fighting Chance With the Chaos of Living
What is AWP & Can It Help Your Writing Career?
Dinah Lenney: On Essay and Image
Virginia Woolf: A Home of One's Own
Writer’s Block, Stress, Depression… or Inflammatory Cytokines?
Mining for Stories Among Family Legends and Artifacts
No Matter How Much You Lose, You'll Always Have Your Story
We Are Limited by The Stories We Tell Ourselves