How to Find the Right Lit Mag for You
Every writer should be reading both the best and the most accessible literary magazines. Here's how.
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How to Find the Right Lit Mag for You
An Ode to the Literary Bath
One of the bedrocks of a successful writing life is the full understanding that any research that needs to be done can be done in the bath.
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An Ode to the Literary Bath
How to Write (or Not) During the Coronavirus Outbreak
It's the time of Coronavirus, which is pretty much like the bad dystopian novel plot we all can't believe we're living. And I'll tell you what, I'm not writing that…
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How to Write (or Not) During the Coronavirus Outbreak
Read This to Learn That: Free Indirect Discourse in “A Changed Man”
There's a style of third-person in fiction that frees up your narrator to let the characters indirectly share their thoughts, without all the clunkiness of “she thought” or “he imagined.”…
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Read This to Learn That: Free Indirect Discourse in “A Changed Man”
10 Books of Poetry for People Who Aren’t “Poetry People”
When you think of poetry, you probably think of the things that come up when I looked for stock images for "poetry." Feather quills. Roses. Soft focus dreamscapes. I like…
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10 Books of Poetry for People Who Aren’t “Poetry People”