Creative Writing
Litstack Recs | Changing My Mind & Time Salvager
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, by Zadie Smith This collection of essays came about by accident, Zadie Smith tells us...
Litstack Rec: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel & The Cost of Hope
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, by Alexander Chee "Writing is a way of going to the depth of...
You Are What You Eat
There are many axioms that get tossed around writing advice columns and beginning writer's workshops. Show, don't tell is a...
Traveling Light: Unpacking a Story
So there I am, in a small hotel between the Costa Brava and Sitges, once again unpacking the bag I’ve...
It’s a Jekyll and Hyde Thing: My Pursuit of the Written Word
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink...
The Most Common Phrases in ‘Hunger Games,’ ‘Harry Potter,’ and ‘Twilight’
From Flavorwire: Ben Blatt of Slate decided to see what adjectives, adverbs, and sentences pop up most in the popular...
Opportunities for Midwestern Writers
If you're a writer from the Midwest, or who writes about the region, take note. the museum of americana has...
