Writing the Weird, Bizarre, and Impossible

Writing the Weird, Bizarre, and Impossible

“...most of the books I have written and those I minted to write originate from the thought that it will be impossible for me to write a book of that kind: when I have convinced myself that such a book is completely beyond my capacities of temperament or skill, I sit...

Podcasts for the Book Lover

Podcasts for the Book Lover

During months of self-isolation and quarantine, it often felt as though we had endless hours to spend on our own. A frequently asked question in the last year was “what quarantine hobby did you pick up?” For many of the book lovers out there, myself included, it was a...

Reckless Writing: 4 Poetry Exercises for Spontaneous Composition

Reckless Writing: 4 Poetry Exercises for Spontaneous Composition

Poetry can feel restricted. Like most styles of writing, it is deeply personal and blooms in solitude. It’s often viewed among the arts as a cold and lonely craft. Musicians can jam, singers can belt, painters can thrash buckets at a canvas, dancers can sweat and...

How to Make Your Fiction Cinematic

How to Make Your Fiction Cinematic

We all remember a cinematic moment from our favorite movie, recounting it scene by scene for our friends around the lunch table in high school, but when does anyone talk about their favorite cinematic moment from a book? Hardly ever it seems. Much of this is due to...

What to Do With Old Writing

What to Do With Old Writing

No matter when we’ve begun in our writing careers, we are bound to leave unfulfilled and unfinished works in our wake. Some of them we’ve discarded so long ago that they are nearly forgotten, unless they’ve been unearthed from an old notebook in your childhood bedroom...

Tips For Writing In the Apocalypse

Tips For Writing In the Apocalypse

Look, we all knew the end would come for us eventually, and with the way 2020 was going for us, the end might be coming sooner rather than later. Us monkeys just can’t go around banging sticks together for thousands of years without there being some kind of...

Books to Read at the Start of Another Wild Year

Books to Read at the Start of Another Wild Year

2020, to put it lightly, was an awful year for most people. Our ways of living have been radically changed. COVID has been a constant worry and the presidential election caused stress for many. Although much in the immediate future is uncertain, we all must find...

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