What Shape Is Your Story?
It's always a good day to share a video of Kurt Vonnegut talking about writing. “Stories have very simple shapes, ones that computers can...
Use Poetry to Unlock a Different Kind of Prose
If you're like this editor, you read in a variety of genres and forms, including plays, essays, and poetry. Unfortunately, many writers wouldn't be...
Not All Who Wander Are Lost
In an essay for Lit Hub, writer Rebecca Solnit extolls the virtues of novels and non-fiction works that take time arriving at their destinations.
"Some...
Great Moral Issues Requires Art that Uplifts
During an interview with Lit Hub's fiction/non/fiction podcast, Ha Jin (A Song Everlasting) talks about how artists can create work that lasts while also...
Maxine Hong Kingston: “Anybody’s Life Could be a Wonderful Piece of...
Lit Hub celebrates the birthday of treasured writer Maxine Hong Kingston by sharing some of her best quotes about writing.
“You . . ....
Edgar Allen Poe: The Perfect Writer for Our Times
In an essay for Electric Lit, Catherine Baab-Muguira says that Edgar Allen Poe is the perfect writer for the COVID-19 zeitgeist. "Few creative careers...
Don’t Preach: Craft an Emotional Experience When Writing Big Topics
In a post on Writer Unboxed, Kathryn Craft discusses the challenges of tackling important issues in your writing, while avoiding preachiness. Instead, Craft urges...
When Do You Know It’s Time to Cut Your Losses?
The sunk cost fallacy is a theory of human nature that says people will continue to invest in something - financially or emotionally -...
Jonathan Franzen: “The Novel Can Change Things”
During an interview with the Open Source podcast, Jonathan Franzen talks about the importance of writing about big ideas.
"I had this idea that the...
Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere
In an excerpt from her book, Writing, acclaimed novelist Marguerite Duras shared how watching the death of a common housefly taught her that stories...
