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The writer’s duty of accurately naming the world takes on new importance for a new father, whose infant son teaches him that it’s sometimes more pleasurable to flirt with meaning than to be precise.
Following the death of her husband, one woman begins writing to outpace the pain of grief and discovers in her own words the evolution of mourning.
After her daughter’s illness stripped the beauty and enchantment from her life, a writer finds inspiration to work again in the joy her child gains from creating her own art.
Fiction writer M. Allen Cunningham shares his approach to digesting rejection, a fundamental part of this literary vocation that every writer—even luminaries such as Henry James and Wallace Stegner—must face.
From burger-slinging line cooks to space-walking astronauts, focusing on a fictional character’s work and well-researched working habits can set a story in motion.
Novelist Ellen Sussman offers four simple steps for writers who want to get more out of their writing time.
Novelist Ann Napolitano shares her experience with her first readers—those colleagues-cum-kindred spirits who can simultaneously break down and shore up her writing—and offers guidance for locating and cultivating your own.
Contributor Laurie Rachkus Uttich recalls an episode from childhood that marked her beginnings as a writer and explores the truth and lies and the space where words fall in between.
The key to creating a compelling voice in fiction may be found in honoring the imperfections of your narrator—his limitations, delusions, and flaws.
As a young woman, Annam Manthiram discovered contemporary Indian women authors whose books opened her eyes to her mother’s struggles as a new American who didn’t understand English or know how to read.
