How Stand-Up Comedy Helped Me Craft a Public Writer Persona
Writing my first jokes, I’d replaced my anxieties over the public-facing demands of an author career with a greater willingness to show up and be seen.
Writing my first jokes, I’d replaced my anxieties over the public-facing demands of an author career with a greater willingness to show up and be seen.
If you’ve written short stories and are figuring how to get started on a novel, Erin Flanagan has some tips to help you get started.
You might surprise yourself at how much you’re able to accomplish in short, focused periods of twenty-five minutes.
I know I’m the kind of writer who has to trick himself into writing, into making the effort to find something to write about.
After contact, you may feel exposed, raw, tingly. Learn about flash nonfiction forms and what to do if you want to write flash of your own.
There is no real, direct “cure” for procrastination, but there might be ways of better understanding it so that we can all use procrastination to our benefit in the long-run.
Is my singular definition of myself as a novelist useful to me?
Why is it so hard to land the ending of a story? We want the endings of our stories to feel surprising yet inevitable—which is easier said than done.
As a nonbinary queer writer, fictional characters helped me understand myself. I encourage authors to include nonbinary characters in their work.
For the fiction writer who is looking to dive into the deep end of writing their first film script, here are some things to keep in mind.
If you’re interested in writing screenplays, it’s important to get to know the nearly identical format all screenplays and film scripts follow.
Writing a novel is a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. A bucket-list item. And like so many other bucket-list items, you have to find a way to make it happen.
If you’re having trouble seeing the forest through the trees, these exercises will help you pinpoint what kind of story you’re trying to tell—and who your audience might be.
If it’s your first time taking a workshop or working with an editor, here are some terms you might come across.