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Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like <em>Elden Ring</em>

Novelists, Trust Me: You Can Really Learn a Lot About Storytelling From Video Games Like Elden Ring

Nick Newman Considers the Act of Writing as a Form of (Game) Play

By Nick Newman | February 19, 2025

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”

By Emily J. Smith | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

Poetry’s “Flirty, Winking Middle Space.” Sarah Lyn Rogers on the Speaker as Mask in Verse

The Author of “Cosmic Tantrum” Explores Ritual and Poetic Personas

By Sarah Lyn Rogers | February 18, 2025

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

T Bambrick and Jane Miller are Writing Past the Harm

In Conversation with Lena Crown on Awakeners

By awakeners | February 18, 2025

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

Dennis James Sweeney on How to Submit

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How to Write a Good Sex Scene

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