The Importance of Reading Against Your Biases
In an essay adapted from her book Read Dangerously, Azar Nafisi discusses the importance of reading works that challenge our perceptions and ways of...
What is Uncertainty Telling You?
In an essay for Lit Hub, George Saunders talks about that awkward moment when you're not sure what happens next in your story. Some...
Don’t Be Afraid to Explore
In a post on Writer Unboxed, Kathleen McCleary says we should challenge ourselves to work past fears in our writing.
For McCleary, that means writing...
Your Writing Isn’t Haute Couture
Continuing their lengthy series on what not to do, the editors at Writer's Digest have some advice we agree with wholeheartedly: Don't try to...
Write What You Don’t Know for Fun and Profit
In this share, we tackle another of writing's shibboleths: write what you know. Simple advice, easy to understand, but also incredibly vague and unhelpful.
In...
Your Brand is A Promise
In their latest episode, the Writing Excuses hosts continue their discussion of the promises you make to a reader before they open your book....
Don’t Get Bogged Down in Prose
In an article on Writer's Digest, Moriah Richard continues the blog's series on mistakes writers make. In this post, Richard says writers make a...
Be Courageous Enough to Be Seen
Writers hold back from finishing projects, submitting work, and publishing books for a variety of reasons, but the biggest and most damaging is imposter...
Yes, You Can Write About Your Family
Some folks get nervous writing about events that happened to or within their families, even when they fictionalize. They worry that family members will...
The Genius of Toni Morrison
In an excerpt from her introduction to the reissue of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Bernardine Evaristo discusses the lessons she learned reading the...
