• Craft and Advice

    First Draft

    Eric Nguyen on Inverting the Stereotype of the “Other”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 29, 2022
    Creativity

    How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

    By Dr. Jay Baruch  August 29, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Susan Choi on Powering Through a First Draft

    By Susan Choi  August 26, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at Denial: Jon Raymond on the Artistic Inspiration Behind His Novel

    By Jon Raymond  August 25, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Megan Giddings: Why the World Still Needs Magic in Literature

    By The Maris Review  August 25, 2022
    Movies

    Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater

    By Jerome Charyn  August 25, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Sidik Fofana on Gentrification and Teaching in Public Schools

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 25, 2022
    Otherppl

    Melissa Chadburn on Her Relationship Between Sobriety and Creativity

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  August 24, 2022
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Foz Meadows and Alexandra Rowland on Falling in Love with the Romance Genre

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   August 24, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Jason Chin on Developing Emotional Connections with Places in Order to Illustrate Them

    By NewberyTart   August 24, 2022
    Publishing

    I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

    By Lauren Acampora  August 23, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

    By The Virtual Book Channel  August 23, 2022
    Keen On

    Forget Politics: Why a Novelist’s First Priority Is To Tell a Good Story

    By Keen On  August 23, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Shane Kowalski on Creating the Comedic Pivots in His Work

    By I'm a Writer But   August 23, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Whose Lives Can We Plunder? Or: How to Base a Character on Yourself

    By Jincy Willett  August 23, 2022
    Write-minded

    Emotional Expression Is as Scary and Important as You Think It Is

    By Write-minded   August 23, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Tom Scharpling on Legacy, Being Forgotten, and His Latest Paperback Release

    By So Many Damn Books  August 23, 2022
    Film History

    Marguerite Duras on Writing the Screenplay for Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour

    By Marguerite Duras  August 22, 2022
    Publishing

    What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

    By Alexa T. Dodd  August 22, 2022
    The Internet

    Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

    By Kristine Langley Mahler  August 22, 2022
    First Draft

    Jamil Jan Kochai on Writing About Violence

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 22, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

    By Mary Gaitskill  August 19, 2022
    Trauma

    The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

    By Beth Macy  August 19, 2022
    13 Ways of Looking

    13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

    By Maud Newton  August 18, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

    By Fiction Non Fiction  August 18, 2022
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