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The author describes her failed attempts at sitting down to write, and turns to the lives and methods of famous writers, as well as her experiences as a mother, to find a way to write with a sense of spontaneity and play.
Wanderlust, nature vs. tech, and speculative recollection—three prompts to get pen to paper.
A writer and editor reflects on her work as both creative impulse and ancestral redemption.
A former writing teacher explores the best methods for encouraging new talent.
Novelists Caroline Leavitt and Jonathan Evison discuss the books that just didn’t work.
Use found language to compose a poem, incorporate video games into a story, or write an essay on selflessness—three prompts to bring your writing to life this winter.
After the death of her son, a writer copes with immeasurable loss and grief through a daily practice: writing more than two hundred thank-you notes.
Quoth “The Raven” for inspiration, compose a campus story, or petition for your own state beverage—three prompts to carry you through the fall.
Explore your inner soundtrack, make your character sweat, and embrace your many identities—three prompts to keep you writing this summer.
Regardless of whether our writing is accepted, the submission process has merits all its own, from creating deadlines to distancing us from our work.
