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...
How Do “Social Emotions” Factor in Your Story?
Lit Hub shares an excerpt from Leonard Mlodinow's new book, Emotionial: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking. In the excerpt, Mlodinow suggests that certain emotional...
Simone de Beauvoir: The Original Writer is Always Shocking
A post on Writer Write shares 7 writing quotes from Simone de Beauvoir, including:
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty...
Alice McDermott: Connection is the Reason We Read and Write
During a conversation with Lit Hub's First Draft: A Dialogue of Writing podcast, Alice McDermott talks about her new book of essays on writing,...
Tiphanie Yanique: the Politics of Road Stories
In a post on Lit Hub, Tiphanie Yanique examines the "on the road" novel: a story that takes its characters on a road trip...
Break the Hero’s Journey to Tell a Story of Your Own
In an article for Lit Hub, Tiphanie Yanique talks about how she used the Hero's Journey structure to tell a story Joseph Campbell was unlikely...
