Is Your Story “Big Enough” to Write About? | Jane Friedman
Photo by Pixabay Today’s post is excerpted from Heart. Soul. Pen.: Find Your Voice on the…
Wild Desire
Abstract 2 from Awash by Will Steacy, a portfolio that appeared in issue no. 177 of…
Defining Negative Space in Story | Jane Friedman
Photo by Randy Laybourne on Unsplash Today’s post is by author and book coach Deborah Ann…
Televised Music Is a Pointless Rigmarole
Herbert von Karajan directing Verdi’s Messa da Requiem in Milan’s La Scala theater. Aired in West…
Troubleshooting Your Story’s Ending
Hello, everyone, today we’re going to be talking about how to troubleshoot your story’s ending. Today’s…
New Books by Nicolette Polek, Honor Levy, and Tracy Fuad
Mural at the Amargosa Opera House. Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Gia wants…
The Poetry of Fact: On Alec Wilkinson’s Moonshine
Abandoned shack in rural North Carolina. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain….
The Double-Edged Sword of List Building Promotions | Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by author Brenda E Smith. I realized a lifelong dream when I self-published…
Scrabble, Anonymous
Images courtesy of Brad Phillips. This morning, before breakfast, I played nineteen games of Scrabble on…
How to Write Compelling Inner Conflict | Jane Friedman
Photo by Alex Vámos on Unsplash Today’s post is by Angela Ackerman, co-author of the new…
Hot Pants at the Sodomy Disco
“Pedro Lemebel, one of the most important queer writers of twentieth-century Latin America,” writes Gwendolyn Harper,…
5 Reasons You Should Consider Writing Your Memoir in Present Tense | Jane Friedman
Photo by Fallon Michael on Unsplash Today’s post is by author Gina DeMillo Wagner, author of…
Story Time
“Un Joyeux Festin.” Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CCO 4.0. There was a time in…
Enneagram Types for Writers: Types 5-9
Welcome back to our journey through the Enneagram types for writers. Last week, we talked about…
The ABCs of Gardening
From An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children. Kara Walker. A is for ABC book. An Encyclopedia…
Anacondas in the Park
Parque Forestal. Photograph by Arturo Rinaldi Villegas, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under CC0 BY-SA 3.0 Deed….
Death by Sea
Photograph by Isabel Dietz Hartmann. Heading to the dinner party, I wondered if people there would…
3 Book Marketing Misconceptions and What to Do Instead | Jane Friedman
Today’s post is by children’s author and digital strategist Angie Isaacs. Show of hands, writers, how…