Category: Craft

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

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’…

“In many ways, memoir grieves a life that no longer exists.” — Sarah Fawn Montgomery on writing about loss.

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.”

In literature, physical comedy may be slapstick or it may use subtle references to body functions….

CNF contests are worth submitting to, even if you’re a new writer. In fact, they’re a fantastic place to start.

In this month’s CRAFT column, Stephanie Hunt shares Tour de France-inspired writing tips.

Page 2 of 13

« 1 2 3 4 … 13 »