Ten Writers on Writing Advice: 2021
Ten writers, including Alex Dimitrov and Kaitlyn Greenidge, share the best writing advice they’ve ever heard.
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How to Keep Going
The author recalls being pregnant in the early days of the pandemic and asks: How we can continue to create in times of uncertainty?
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Craft Capsule: Pet Sitting
The author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat leverages his intrusive thoughts from pet sitting for fiction.
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Dear Memory: On Creative Struggle, Stretching, and Asking for Help
The author reflects on the struggle to give shape to an intensely personal book—Dear Memory: Letters On Writing, Silence, and Grief—and discusses how reaching out to fellow writers helped her finish her manuscript.
The Time Is Now: Writing Prompts and Exercises
Write three poems in the form of letters addressed to parents, grandparents, and an emotion; a fiction story set during holiday festivities; or a list essay about gratitude and expectation.
An Artist’s Game of Telephone
Artist Nathan Langston put a unique spin on a game of Telephone by using a fragment of poetry to inspire one artist then another—growing into a multifaceted project with contributions from artists from seventy-two countries.
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Craft Capsule: How to Be a Writer and an Organizer
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth makes time for both community organizing and writing.
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Craft Capsule: The Multi-Genre Mindset
The author of Southbound and The Parted Earth shares her approach to balancing projects in multiple genres.
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Craft Capsule: Becoming Strange Again
The author of Love and Other Poems offers advice on how to avoid being stuck.
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The Thousand Pages: Tips for Transitioning to the Novel
The author of The Step Back offers strategies for short-story writers trying to draft a novel for the first time and shares how a new approach—aiming to pen a thousand pages—led to his first novel.
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