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...
Stories Are About Why
In an interview with the Creative Penn podcast, writer Lisa Cron talks about the importance of story, including what stories are really about and...
Listen to What Your Story Tells You
Sometimes a story comes to us fully-formed. We have a general idea about our plot and characters and overarching theme before we start writing....
Don’t Let Anyone Tell You What You Can Write
If you haven't figured it out, this editor is a proponent of freedom of expression. We believe that writers can write what they want...
