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What are you searching for in your writing?
By Alicia AnsteadWhat are you searching for in your writing? That’s a question the best editors, writing coaches and our own instincts help each of us answer as we begin, develop, struggle with, angst over and complete – or set aside – our storytelling projects. In various ways, it is also the question at the heart of the articles and interviews in this issue of The Writer.
Features
Pilgrims and seekers
By Linda LappinThe quest narrative can lead you to a place of power and deepen your story.
Child’s play
By Yvonne Coppard and Linda NewberyWhat makes a good children’s book? Two specialists offer insights.
The da Vinci disease
By Don FryA coach offers approaches to finishing your projects.
Foe or friend?
By Linda K. WertheimerBuilding a Facebook community may be a boon to your writing life.
Angela Liddon: blog to book
By Megan KaplonA food writer finds her way from online to on shelves.
Departments
Unblocked
By Hillary CasavantA new book explores the art of overcoming creative hurtles.
What’s so funny?
By Erika HoffmanThe ABCs and Ks of writing funny and delivering the joke.
Word power
By Hillary CasavantSplit This Rock Poetry Festival promotes activism and social justice through writing.
Funny ha-ha
By Melissa HartA journal of humor goes for the laughs.
Also in Every Issue
Take Note
Monthly prompts, Catherine Barnett on poetry, green goods for the office, using first person, making it through rough times, advice from writers and more.
Markets
Classified advertising
How I Write
Tamara Faith Berger: “You have to put in the time. It can be a lot of failure, but the failure doesn’t mean to stop.”