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Staff Picks: Dictators, Deep Souls, and Doom
Lyonel Trouillot. Photo: Georges Seguin. CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0). A sense of unease pervades the Haitian writer Lyonel Trouillot’s Street of Lost Footsteps, translated from the…
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The Top 3 Things We Love About the Fall Writing Contest
What’s the most fun you can have with writing? It starts with brilliant inspiration for a story you love. Even better if you’re surrounded by…
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The Art of Distance No. 14
In March, The Paris Review launched The Art of Distance, a newsletter highlighting unlocked archive pieces that resonate with the staff of the magazine, quarantine-appropriate writing on the Daily, resources…
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How to Keep Score in Your Story With Scene Goals
Imagine attending a football game with no rules. I don’t know about you, but there’s a limit to how excited I could get about watching…
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How the Rising Action Works in a Story: Definition and Examples of This Dramatic Structure Element
If you’ve ever told a good story—one that has your friends or family on the floor laughing, or else on the edge of their seat…
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Staff Picks: Slapstick, Stanzas, and Stuff
Michael Rips. Photo: Ric Ocasek. Cooped up at home, many of us are now being kept company by our stuff, that antifunctional classification of belongings…
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The Magic of Atmosphere: Literary Definition and Genre Examples
Atmosphere matters. People will pay a premium to eat at a restaurant with a certain ambience or buy a house in a setting that supports…
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All About Our Summer Writing Contest: Prizes and Publishing Info
Do you want to write? Are you feeling stuck, finding it a little more difficult to write a story readers love? Join our Summer Writing Contest…
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YA Comics and Graphic Novels Releasing April–June 2020
It’s a great season for new YA graphic novels, nonfiction, and comics! We’re seeing way more original DC comic stories from standout YA writers (Laurie…
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