Don’t Write Alone
On Writing (When I’m Not Inspired)
I know I’m the kind of writer who has to trick himself into writing, into making the effort to find something to write about.
The City Writer Versus the Country Writer
Choosing one life means missing out on another; it is not possible to be everywhere all at once, to do everything, to be everyone.
Divining Your Divergent Interests: The Card Oracle Method
The oracle part sounds mysterious, but it just means drawing cards from a shuffled deck and treating the results as an answer key for generating new writing.
Kate Folk Believes the Weird and Eerie Transcends Genre
In this interview, Ploi Pirapokin talks with Kate Folk about her new book, ‘Out There,’ the importance of humor, and the experience of publishing a short story collection.
Selling Books Helped Me Get My Groove Back
As I got better at articulating what customers should read and why, I was becoming equally capable of articulating what kinds of stories I wanted to write.
I Read My Own Audiobook Like It Was Someone Else’s
I expected that inhabiting the roles of both the author and the narrator at once would bring me closer to the text than ever, in a way that might feel uncomfortable.
When Flash Nonfiction Strikes You
After contact, you may feel exposed, raw, tingly. Learn about flash nonfiction forms and what to do if you want to write flash of your own.
Melissa Febos on Rejecting the Patriarchy’s Bad Ideas
In this interview, Ruth Joffre talks with Melissa Febos about her new craft book, ‘Body Work,’ the therapeutic effects of writing and reading, the ethics of writing about other people, and more.
What to Do When Work Drains Your Creative Drive
It’s a bitter irony, courtesy of capitalism: writers working as writers to support the writing we are too spent to do.
Writing in the Kitchen, in the Presence of Those I Love Most
Maybe I’m just not a writer who’s meant to work in peace and quiet, as lovely as that sounds.
