Category Fiction Craft Essays
WHAT WE CHASE AND WHAT STAYS, a Craft Essay by Jillian Schedneck
HAIKU PRACTICE FOR PROSE WRITERS, A Craft Essay by Phil Wetjen
So You Think You Know Your Characters? Think Again, by Gerry Wilson
Strangeness and the Art of Revision, by Joshua Wetjen
WRITING TIMELY FICTION, a Craft Essay by Laura Leigh Morris
NO SURPRISE FOR THE WRITER? WHAT A RELIEF FOR ME, a Craft Essay by David Galef
ROOTED IN THE PLACE YOU KNOW, a Craft Essay by Bradley Sides
Navigating Back: Stargazing and the Threat of AI, a Craft Essay by Scott Hurd
THE FICTION MULTIVERSE, or What Happens Next. Or next, or next… a craft essay by John Fried
FROM DRAWER TO BOOKSTORE IN JUST TWENTY-FOUR YEARS: The Long and Worthy Journey to Publication by Ona Gritz
CENTER OF AN IMAGINARY WORLD: Place in Fiction, a craft essay by Mandira Pattnaik
SHOW, THEN TELL: Crafting Fiction with Alive Exposition by Grace Evans
REAL ROT: My Newfound Impatience with Antiheroes, a Craft Essay by Tom Gammarino
RESEARCH AND WRITING: The Warp and Woof of Historical Fiction, a craft essay by Terry Roberts
EMBRACE THE NELSON: Going Beyond the Pretty Narrative Voice, a craft essay by Dena Soffer
NOTES TO A YOUNG WRITER: On (Re)writing, (Re)vision, Editing, and Other Random Terms, a Craft Essay by Gayathri Prabhu
RESONANT PLACES: Houses We Live in, Homes that Live in Our Writing, a Fiction Craft Essay by Ellen Prentiss Campbell
MAKING THE READER FEEL SOMETHING. PLEASE. SHOW AND TELL, A Craft Essay by Shuly Xóchitl Cawood
QUEER (PRIVATE) EYE: Crafting a New Hardboiled Sleuth, a Craft Essay by Margot Douaihy
AVOIDING / EMBRACING: Strategies for Writers with Anxiety Disorders A Craft Essay by Bailey Bridgewater
What I Learned from Jennifer Egan’s Use of Sensory Detail, a Craft Essay by Sandy Smith
SISTERHOOD: How the Books we Both Read Helped Me Write My Sister’s Life into Fiction, a Craft Essay by Jane Rosenberg LaForge
A BOOK BY ANY OTHER NAME: ON TITLES AND DATING: A Craft Essay by Melinda Scully
HOW WRITING FICTION HELPS ME—AND MAYBE YOU—DEAL WITH PAST TRAUMA, a craft essay by Kelly Fordon
THE BIG WARM HOUSE An Essay on the Art of Becoming a Writer by Emma Sloley
THE PROBLEM WITH SURFING AND WRITING: a Craft Essay by Nate House
INTO THE WOODS: What Fairy Tale Settings Can Teach Us About Fiction Writing, a Craft Essay by Dana Kroos
THREE SECRETS TO CREATE THE WRITING LIFE YOU WANT, a craft essay by Lisa Bubert
IN DEFENSE OF TELLING, a craft essay by Scott Bane
SHOWING AND TELLING: Seven Ways to Help Your Writing Breathe, A Craft Essay by Billy Dean
FOUND IN TRANSLATION: How my Memoir of Life Overseas Turned into a Novella, a Craft Essay by Ele Pawelski
MY WALK ON THE BEACH WITH ANTON A Craft Essay on Connecting the Body to the Brain by Billy Dean
SHOULD YOU REALLY BE WRITING THAT? A Craft Essay on Writing Diversity in Fiction by Sawyer Lovett
SPYING THROUGH THE KEYHOLE: A Novelist Grows Roots in the Glamorous, Twisted World of V. C. Andrews by Emma Sloley
THROUGH GIRL-COLORED GLASSES A Craft Essay on Gender and Writing by Dina Honour
FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF FOR WRITERS When Dealing with Negative Feedback, a craft essay by Floyd Cheung
TURNING OUT THE LIGHTS: On Cuba, Writing, and the Ecstasy of Planetary Topography, a craft essay by Tim Weed
TIME HEALS, EVEN YOUR DRAFTS: Three Key Realizations for Revising Your Novel, A Craft Essay by Wendy Fox
SOMEONE IS WRITING THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA, a craft essay by Mary Ann Bragg
EMOTION IS NOT PLOT: Using Detachment to Create Powerful Fiction, a craft essay by Claire Rudy Foster
CROSSING BORDERS IN FICTION by Ellen Meeropol
CONFESSIONS OF A FICTION EDITOR by George Dila
