Sep 26, 2022
I’m Living in the Poems I Can’t Yet Write
How does one translate life into poetry, especially in seasons of total depletion?
How does one translate life into poetry, especially in seasons of total depletion?
When a writing project has a good title, everyone can feel it. But getting there can be a struggle—for both the author and the publishing team, if your project happens to be a book.
For our Application Week series, MFA directors and professors discuss common misconceptions, how they support students, and answer that ubiquitous question: Is getting an MFA worth it?
In this exercise, classes instructor Chaya Bhuvaneswar asks you to consider your impatience with not yet being where you want to be in your writing career and helps you use that as momentum.
If you’ve written short stories and are figuring how to get started on a novel, Erin Flanagan has some tips to help you get started.
You might surprise yourself at how much you’re able to accomplish in short, focused periods of twenty-five minutes.
I know I’m the kind of writer who has to trick himself into writing, into making the effort to find something to write about.
After contact, you may feel exposed, raw, tingly. Learn about flash nonfiction forms and what to do if you want to write flash of your own.
There is no real, direct “cure” for procrastination, but there might be ways of better understanding it so that we can all use procrastination to our benefit in the long-run.
Is my singular definition of myself as a novelist useful to me?
Why is it so hard to land the ending of a story? We want the endings of our stories to feel surprising yet inevitable—which is easier said than done.
As a nonbinary queer writer, fictional characters helped me understand myself. I encourage authors to include nonbinary characters in their work.
For the fiction writer who is looking to dive into the deep end of writing their first film script, here are some things to keep in mind.
If you’re interested in writing screenplays, it’s important to get to know the nearly identical format all screenplays and film scripts follow.
Writing a novel is a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. A bucket-list item. And like so many other bucket-list items, you have to find a way to make it happen.
If you’re having trouble seeing the forest through the trees, these exercises will help you pinpoint what kind of story you’re trying to tell—and who your audience might be.
If it’s your first time taking a workshop or working with an editor, here are some terms you might come across.
