CRAFT: On Writing Trauma in Creative Nonfiction by Travis Harman July 10, 2024 I mined my brain, every crevice, searching for parts of me that only I knew. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Happy Birthday Book (And Me) by Morgan Baker May 12, 2024 A year ago, I was turning 65 and sending my debut memoir out into the world at the same time. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Say “Yes, And”: How the Rules of Improvisation Can Make You a Better Writer April 3, 2024 Improv, or the performance art of unplanned invention, can be a magical art form when done well. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Sentiment & Sentimentality by Ellen Bass February 3, 2024 Although we want to evoke sensation and make it possible for the reader to feel, we don’t want to fall into sentimentality. Read the full story →
CRAFT: You’re Writing for Search Engines, Too: SEO Tips for Writers by Donna Talarico November 20, 2023 Writers are wordsmiths; but, there’s a distinction between writing for a literary audience and writing for the web…. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Elevate Your Essays: Writing By Bringing the Interior to the Exterior by Estelle Erasmus September 10, 2023 The best way to get into the underlying emotions of a story is to start with action, aka the inciting incident. Read the full story →
CRAFT: Recovering and Reclaiming Memory by Amy White April 10, 2023 Like many authors … of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.” Read the full story →
CRAFT: Biased Language in CNF: Crafting with a Careful Eye by Jennifer Chong Schneider March 20, 2023 As a biracial writer…I often struggle with how to write about race: my race, my parents’, their families’… Read the full story →
CRAFT: Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief by Sarah Fawn Montgomery December 15, 2022 “In many ways, memoir grieves a life that no longer exists.” — Sarah Fawn Montgomery on writing about loss. Read the full story →
CRAFT: How to Leave an Essay by Suzanne Farrell Smith November 13, 2022 Deciding when and how to leave an essay is hard. You don’t want to drag on, but you don’t want to “dismount too early.” Read the full story →