By Mary Rakow (Mary Rakow will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Finding our voice is both inward and social. Inward because our voice isn’t about word choice and style. It’s comes from how I experience
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Becoming a Sensitive, Responsible Fiction Writer
by C. S. Lakin If you’re a fiction writer, you create characters. Hopefully believable ones. Characters your readers love and hate. Characters that pop off the page and take readers on an exciting journey. Regardless of whether you write lighthearted comedy, serious relational dramas, complicated romance, or adventurous fantasy, more than mere authenticity is needed—if
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Write a Book Starting at the End
By Martha Alderson (Martha Alderson will be teaching at the Writing For Change: Worldwide Craft Conference September 12-13. For more information, please visit the Writing For Change: Worldwide website. Or register here.) Every book is made up of a beginning, middle, and an end. Usually writers start writing at the beginning of their books, a
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Ten Minutes with NaNoWriMo’s Grant Faulkner
Subjects covered Grant Faulkner is Executive Director of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), a yearly challenge to write fifty thousand words of a novel in one month. 500,000 writers in 200 countries participate in NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo offers events year-round, including Camp NaNoWriMo, a more casual version of NaNoWriMo that takes place in April and July.
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Memoir as a Method for Change
by Brooke Warner (Brooke Warner will be speaking with Michelle Tea on the topic of using your memoir as a force for change at San Francisco Writing For Change: Worldwide on September 8. Register and join us for this Inspiration Conversation!) I was twelve or thirteen when I read Go Ask Alice. It was fiction,
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Storytelling, Truth Telling in Nonfiction Writing
by Kate Farrell “You’re never going to kill storytelling because it’s built-in the human plan. We come with it.” – Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale. Today, storytelling is a hip trend in marketing campaigns because stories are the most successful way to engage and retain customers. In the last twenty years, TED talks
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