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Category: Craft
Our Craft column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
CRAFT: How to Structure and Organize Your Memoir with Visual Techniques by Kathy Pooler
CRAFT: Writing The Body by Nicole Breit
CRAFT: 15 Tips for Writing a Book Review by Sarah Boon
CRAFT: Don’t Throw Away Your Morning Pages by Jennifer Chong Schneider
CRAFT: On Revealing Secrets in Our Stories by Nicole Breit
CRAFT: 14 Tips for Interviewing Authors by Sarah Boon
CRAFT: The Five Responses to Rejection and How to Craft Your Own by Estelle Erasmus
CRAFT: Making yourself a character in your story by Nicole Breit
CRAFT: What to Do When You’ve Written an “SFD” by Amy Evrard
Like many writers, up until that point I had approached my writing practice with resistance, self-doubt, and fear… When I first read Anne Lamott’s infamous chapter on “Shitty First Drafts” (SFDs) from her book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, I felt as if someone had scooped me out of choppy waters…