
A Secret Weapon for Cutting Your Word Count
Writing, to me, has long been a practice of cutting.
My darlings!
Writing, to me, has long been a practice of cutting.
My darlings!
It felt like the days when I’d first fallen in love with writing. During a long morning stretch on a comfy chair with a coffee,
Success and well-being are two entirely different things.
Reading a slush pile can be your best education in how to write a particular genre.
Ever wish there was a writing resource where you could house emotions to draw from? Enter the Feelings File.
One day last year, I was nearly doubled over in emotional pain, feeling directionless, asking what I should even do with all this pain. A
What is it about sad songs that makes us crave them? Do we want to be sadder? Are we trying to prolong the pain? Or, just maybe, is there a glint of healing in sharing someone else’s sadness?
Read or watch my conversation with Pam Mandel, author of the travel memoir The Same River Twice.
I was standing on a rock in a yard in Colombia, trying to find good reception. My friend, a novelist, was on the phone, and
“How’s your humanity?” That’s the question we focused on when I recently had the pleasure of joining Courtney Maum and Parneshia Jones in conversation as
“White privilege is your history being taught as a core class and mine being taught as an elective.” – Ozy Aloziem Since 2011 and until
Every writer should be reading both the best and the most accessible literary magazines. Here’s how.
How to relay an entire simile with a verb packed with meaning.
My rent is $350 for the next three months, and I can’t tell whether it’s that or the physical space around me, trees instead of
From my first essay nearly published a decade ago to the viral essay that got a million readers to the little goof essays I write now, here are 10 things I’ve learned about writing powerful personal essays
My coaching student scoffed. “Why are you learning grammar?” A part of me was with her, scoffing at grammar that meant memorizing latinate words. Grammar that
I’m looking up Narratively’s instructions on how to pitch, and I see this from their editor, Lilly Dancyger: “In case you’re wondering, here are some
When I decided to start a blog as a follow-up to my book Welcome to the Writer’s Life, I knew I needed to focus. Who
I don’t know why it took me so long to realize I could buy things for my home that I’d only used in offices or
I am feeling feelings about Kristen Arnett’s book, Mostly Dead Things, an absolutely fabulous and hilarious novel set in Florida. Psst: This site uses affiliate