Speaking is part of being human. The idea of being able to communicate is essential to our day-to-day life. If we’re so good at communicating,…
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How to Use Scrivener to Write Scenes That Work
Sometimes it happens. You get that niggling feeling that the scene you just wrote isn’t sitting right, isn’t accomplishing what it needs to do. It…
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Staff Picks: Sex, Stand-Up, and South Korea
Ha Seong-nan. There’s something pleasingly matter-of-fact to the many off-kilter moments found in Ha Seong-nan’s short story collection Flowers of Mold (translated from the Korean…
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Freytag’s Pyramid: Definition, Examples, and How to Use this Dramatic Structure in Your Writing
Most great stories, whether they are a Pixar film or a novel by your favorite author, follow a certain dramatic structure. When you’re getting started…
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How do you write beautiful, award-winning novels, memoirs, and short stories? One tried-and-true way is through a writing workshop, a program with other writers who…
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Write a Great Memoir: How to Start (and Actually Finish) Your First Draft
When I first started writing my memoir, Crowdsourcing Paris, about a real-life adventure I experienced with my wife and ten-month-old son, I thought it was…
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How to Tell an Adventure Story: Max Dubinski
What does it take to tell an adventure story? So many great writers and hopeful adventurers have set out to travel, hoping that might help.…
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6 Ways to Immerse Your Reader in the Setting of a Story
Imagine The Shining taking place in a shopping mall. Or the movie Se7en set in sunny Florida. It just wouldn’t work. The setting of a…
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The Hero’s Journey: The Key to Writing Your Hero Meeting the Mentor
Great stories are filled with great characters. One of the most common characters in any story is the Mentor, a must-include character if you’re writing…
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5 Inspiring Writing Quotes From African American Authors
This week, we lost an incredible writer. Toni Morrison was a novelist, essayist, editor, professor, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her perhaps…
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