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opening
Feb 5, 2022
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4 min read
A close look at the messages readers get from the title, cover, epigraph, and illustration of NK Jemisin’s The City We Became.
story structure
Jan 28, 2022
9 min read
How Patchett uses a shuffled chronology to tell a story that is also about the act of telling stories.
scene study
Jan 15, 2022
12 min read
Sometimes your scene objectives require telling rather than showing. Discover how you can make telling dynamic.
Jan 7, 2022
6 min read
In the opening of The Dutch House, Ann Patchett strategically opens story questions, provides layers of narration, and makes setting details do double duty to draw in readers.
book review
Nov 28, 2021
2 min read
Percy offers detailed, distinctive clarifications of common craft advice.
Nov 21, 2021
3 min read
Pickens, a psychologist, explores roadblocks like time, work, money, fear, and isolation that commonly beset creatives.
Nov 14, 2021
Salesses investigates why and how writing craft rules work, and gives concrete suggestions for how we might think about them differently.
Nov 7, 2021
Trubek offers a behind-the-scenes tour of a small press.
Apr 30, 2021
Is this popular book worth your time? It depends on where you are in the writing process.
Dec 8, 2019
5 min read
Brooks Landon’s method for creating rich, complex sentences.
