At the moment’s submit is by writer and e-book coach Susanne Dunlap. For those who consider creativity as a freewheeling and boundless exercise, including guidelines could appear counterintuitive. However analysis exhibits that clean canvases (whether or not they’re literal or figurative) can truly hinder creativity by permitting your ideas to float to essentially the most acquainted […]

Picture by Rod Lengthy on Unsplash At this time’s submit is by romance creator and ebook coach Trisha Jenn Loehr (@trishajennreads). The parable of the solo author is persistent, but all of us crave group. Only a few, if any, printed books are written in isolation. I’ve tried the solo author route, and it didn’t work. It […]

After I first encountered the work of author Kiran Bhat, I used to be re-evaluating the function I wished journey to play in my life.   For the last decade after I graduated faculty, actual life had solely appeared potential on the street. There was the matter of creating it in America, and there have been […]

Picture by fauxels At this time’s publish is by creator Elle Jauffret. When creating memorable characters, few components carry them to life as vividly as the best way they converse. Speech patterns—whether or not accents or impediments—shortly set up background, character, and historical past with out exposition. Nonetheless, as writers, we supply a big accountability: […]

Picture by Demianastur / Adobe Inventory The surplus of capitalism is the backdrop in Rosalie Moffett’s Making a Residing (Milkweed, 2025), and on the foreground: motherhood, debt, forest fires, and a speaker who’s deep down like everybody “obsessive about dreaming / up the long run, with hell, with all / that spares us.” All through Moffett’s third […]

For many who take pleasure in analyzing the follow of nonfiction writing, analyzing the advanced fantastic thing about the craft to grasp it extra absolutely, this piece shall be of curiosity. It chronicles excerpts from my life as a municipal park ranger in San Diego, a profession from which I retired in 2022, and continues […]

“As a result of for me too, when it comes all the way down to it, the factor that’s most attention-grabbing is what’s happening within the perpetrator’s head.” So begins “Unhappy Tiger,” Neige Sinno’s unusual, shattering memoir of childhood sexual abuse. This slender e-book—iconoclastic in each kind and content material, and now sensitively translated into […]

March 25, 2025, 12:30pm In 2024, Haymarket Books, together with the Mellon Basis, launched a brand new fellowship aimed toward supporting and uplifting writers impacted by the prison authorized system: The Writing Freedom Fellowship. At the moment, they’ve introduced their second annual cohort of fellows, twenty writers whose work explores “themes starting from grief and habit […]

Whereas my intent is to assist my readers study, let me share what I’ve discovered alongside the way in which within the lengthy and winding street resulting in a guide’s publication. Getting a guide into the palms of the meant audiences turned out to be far tougher than I might ever have imagined. Writing the […]

Picture by JACQUELINE BRANDWAYN on Unsplash Right now’s submit is by author, editor, and e book coach Karmen H. Špiljak. Writing fiction in one other language may sound easy. Technically, you’re utilizing the identical instruments as in your mom tongue, so altering the language ought to really feel no completely different from, say, switching from […]