The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write a poem inspired by emptiness, explore your characters’ perceptions of love, or write about your interior self—three prompts to inspire you in the New Year.
Department: The Literary Life
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Harnessing the Power of Hypnagogia
A psychologist and writer explores how writers can tap into the twilight stage between sleep and waking to discover the most creative parts of our minds.
A Forgotten Form: The Art of Letter Writing
Ernest Hemingway’s great-granddaughter makes a case for writing letters to help strengthen and sustain your writing practice.
Writing Partners: Working Together Through Writing and Life
A memoirist posts a want ad to find a writing partner—someone to keep her on task and help her finish her book. What she discovers is so much more.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Explore emotional ties to personal objects in a poem, write a short story about the holiday season, and use interviews for an essay—three prompts to get you writing.
Breaking the Rules: When to Ignore Good Advice
A fiction writer breaks up with her novel and learns that sometimes it’s more important to follow your intuition than take advice.
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In Praise of Darkness: The Art of the Essay in Fraught Times
Exploring the dark to write a better essay, including practical tips in making room for essayistic thinking.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Consider earthly and celestial bodies, write a prequel to a horror story, or explore emotional ties to clothing—three prompts to get you writing.
#MeToo: Crafting Our Most Difficult True Stories
Using elements of craft to tell powerful stories about sexual assault and trauma, with examples from work by Roxane Gay, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Megan Stielstra, and others.
The Tale of the Traveling Chicken: Learning the Art of Fiction With a Joke
A prolific fiction writer and teacher explores the possibilities beyond the punch line of an age-old question.
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