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On the Line Between Truth and Fiction When Writing About Your Family

On the Line Between Truth and Fiction When Writing About Your Family

Lee Matalone Navigates the Tricky Realities of the Most Personal Histories

By Lee Matalone | January 13, 2020

Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

Lessons From a Nightmarish Writing Workshop

Nina Schuyler's Hard-Won Tactics for Running a Tough Group

By Nina Schuyler | January 10, 2020

How to Read After <br>Becoming a Parent

How to Read After
Becoming a Parent

Liz Moore Suggests Practical Ways to Do the
Impossible and Find More Time

By Liz Moore | January 10, 2020

Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

Going to Dinner with Your Troll, and Other Tales of Writing Gone Viral

Courtney Maum on Dealing with Internet Fame

By Courtney Maum | January 9, 2020

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

Sonya Bilocerkowycz on Guilt, Ego, and Speculative Nonfiction

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz | January 9, 2020

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

Ten Writers Reflect on Their First Big YES

T Kira Madden, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, and Others
Describe Their Turning Points

By Benjamin Schaefer | January 8, 2020

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Chuck Palahniuk on the Importance of Not Boring
Your Reader

By Chuck Palahniuk | January 8, 2020

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

By Yvette Benavides | January 8, 2020

Miranda Popkey: What Happens If You Start Thinking of Your Life as a Narrative?

By Kristin Iversen | January 7, 2020

Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

Chuck Palahniuk on His Childhood Love of Ellery Queen and Writing in a Good Mood

The Author of Consider This Answers Five Questions From Lit Hub

By Literary Hub | January 7, 2020

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Learning to Love the Loneliness of Writing After My MFA

Sean Adams on the Community of Writers and
Its Accompanying Pressures

By Sean Adams | January 6, 2020

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Lynda Barry: A Comic Exercise in Building Character

Create Your Characters and Build Their World in Less Than an Hour

By Lynda Barry | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?

Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?

By Jim Davies | December 18, 2019

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

Ben Orlin Used Calculus to Fix His Floundering Draft

By Ben Orlin | December 17, 2019

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

Nick Ripatrazone Speaks to Teacher Joel Mayo

By Nick Ripatrazone | December 17, 2019

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