How to Restart a Stalled Creative Project
How to Revive a Stalled Creative Project How do you restart a stalled creative project when you’ve lost momentum on a book you once believed in? I’m asking for … Read more
What Is Narrative Nonfiction?
What Is Narrative Nonfiction? Definition, Examples & Literary Techniques Narrative nonfiction tells a true story using literary craft. Story is central to the form. The writer decides where the … Read more
5 memoir writing prompts to Mine Recocurring Memories
5 Memoir Writing Prompts for Recurring Memories Mine Those Images and thougts: they are sources of unresoved and unrealized potential (A GOLD MINE) (opens in new tab) Why certain … Read more
Medical Memoir: Michael Caprio Writes About the Process of Survival
Medical Memoir Michael Caprio Writes About the Process of Survival The author of A Bump in the Road on what illness did to his body, his family, and his … Read more
Summer Reading Twist JD Vance and bell hooks
My Summer Reading Stack Took a Strange Turn J.D. Vance, bell hooks, and the question of borrowed authority I was buying books for my summer reading stack when the … Read more
Writing Vivid Scenes or The Suggestion of a Scene
Writing Vivid Scenes or The Suggestion of a Scene What a brief passage from The Great Gatsby can teach writers about movement, atmosphere, memory, and meaning through a few … Read more
How to Start Writing a Memoir
If the Big Event Isn’t the Heart of Your Memoir, What Is? Most people who want to start writing a memoir begin by looking for the biggest event in … Read more
How to Write Dinner Table Scenes
How to Write Dinner Table Scenes That Reveal Power and Conflict Want to concentrate tension, characterization, interpersonal conflict, drop some bombshells, or start a mystery? Set the table. The … Read more
Write a Memoir: You Don’t Need To Have Your Life Figured Out
Write a Memoir Now You Don’t Have to Have Your Life Figured Out (And Why It’s Better if You Don’t) The Question That Stops Almost Everyone Nearly every writer … Read more