“No beautiful writing comes from an impossibly perfect world; it all comes from this one: cluttered, obligated, distracted.”
By Gabriel Packard | Published: April 10, 2018
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The first-place winner of our “Spring Cleaning” short story contest shares her writing process.
Published: April 9, 2018
“You’re climbing Everest by looking down at your feet, not looking up at the mountain. The second I look up, I wouldn’t be able to breathe, and it would all be too daunting.”
By Gabriel Packard | Published: March 26, 2018
“[Writing] takes a long time. There is no rushing it and the work exists on its own timetable, outside of your own personal deadlines.”
By Gabriel Packard | Published: March 19, 2018
“The more specific you are in writing, the more general an audience can react to it.”
Published: March 13, 2018
“Honoring the separation between the private activity of writing and the public activity of being a writer has helped me structure my days.”
By Gabriel Packard | Published: March 5, 2018
A quick-and-dirty guide for finding an agent.
By Brandi Reissenweber | Published: March 1, 2018
This proposal swept an agent off her feet.
By Melissa Hart | Published: February 8, 2018
“After I find a good routine – which, for me, usually involves absolute quiet, at least two hours of uninterrupted time, and a pot of black coffee – the writing starts going well, and then I can forget about the routine.”
By Allison Futterman | Published: January 23, 2018
Can I use spelling that a character would write in a text?
By Brandi Reissenweber | Published: January 9, 2018
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- The first-place winner of our “Spring Cleaning” short story contest shares her writing process. https://t.co/wMBBg8fIzs