Category: Craft

Our Craft column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.

When your writing is stalled, stale or simply not inspired, the task is to break through the writing block

Now that I’m on the other side of the desk, I encourage you to ask these questions before you submit your work to a publisher….

I mined my brain, every crevice, searching for parts of me that only I knew.

A year ago, I was turning 65 and sending my debut memoir out into the world at the same time.

Improv, or the performance art of unplanned invention, can be a magical art form when done well.

Although we want to evoke sensation and make it possible for the reader to feel, we don’t want to fall into sentimentality.

Writers are wordsmiths; but, there’s a distinction between writing for a literary audience and writing for the web….

The best way to get into the underlying emotions of a story is to start with action, aka the inciting incident.

Like many authors … of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.”

As a biracial writer…I often struggle with how to write about race: my race, my parents’, their families’…

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