He Dowses for the Dead
The Marshall Project shares the story of a diviner who teaches crime scene investigators at the National Forensic Academy to dowse for corpses. Believers and...
Embrace Your Peculiarities
During an interview with Lit Hub's WMFA podcast, Garth Greenwell says that writers' eccentricities should be their greatest asset. "In the education of writers, more...
“I See Fictional People.”
In a post on Writers in the Storm, Ellen Buikema says we should embrace the role that intuition or the sixth sense plays in...
Don’t Fear the Poet!
It's no secret that we are big proponents of reading outside your genre, including non-fiction, as well as reading outside your preferred form. Your...
There’s No Shame in Your Game
In another in the Writer's Digest series on Mistakes Writers Make, editor-in-chief Amy Jones discusses something we didn't know was a thing: Writers shaming...
What Kind of Mountain Lays Eggs?
For decades, geologists have observed a bizarre phenomenon at China's Mount Gandang. About every 30 years, a cliff on the side of the mountain...
The Freedom of Anonymity
During an interview with Lit Hub's Book Dreams podcast, Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan discuss the power of writing anonymously. In their collection Anonymous...
10 Exercises to Help You Finish Your Story
In a post on the Script Lab blog, David Young offers ten suggestions for getting unstuck. Our favorites:
Write a scene using only dialogue
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Why Do We Choose the Jobs We Have?
Most people work, with a business or at home. Even most of the idle rich do something with their day. While our stories might...
Navigating a Story Within a Story
In their latest podcast, the Writing Excuses hosts discuss the "story within a story" approach to structure, with guest Peng Shepherd.
