Category: Craft

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

“Learn the rules, so you can break them.” It’s an adage that’s so well-worn in the creative writing community that it is a cliché

Does anyone else freshen their breath before a Zoom meeting? I do.

She made the drapes. Yards and yards of heavy silk graced the huge old windows, softly framing the view of the Tennessee River below.

Describe a traumatic incident cinematically, as if it were playing out as a movie.

From my desk I have the teeniest glimpse of Charleston Harbor, which means I’m a storm watcher, especially during hurricane season.

I’ve developed some guidelines to help you revise and share drafts of deeply personal writing with others in a safer way.

At a time when you might be struggling to stay focused and make progress on your memoir, visual techniques might be helpful…

Is it any wonder, given the amount of time we spend in the space between our ears that writing can feel a bit, well, disembodied at times?

You may be wondering where to start when getting into book reviewing.

I was naïve enough to think that just sitting in my room and writing would somehow work out for me.

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