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Wild Words Book Club: Return to Yourself

By Callie Feyen 7 Comments

Wild Words book club pink finger flower

In this week’s Wild Words book club discussion, Callie Feyen considers the role of our feelings in moving our writing forward. Join us!

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Patron Only, Wild Words, writer's group resources, Writing Life, writing prompt

Poet Laura: Allow Me to Introduce and Explain Myself

By Tania Runyan 7 Comments

Poet Laura Tania Runyan introduces herself

Our inaugural Poet Laura, Tania Runyan, reflects on the business of the season, the perfect time to realize that one doesn’t have time *not* to write.

Filed Under: Blog, Poet Laura

Farmacology Book Club: Good Tilth for the Land, the Body and Our Writing

By Charity Singleton Craig 7 Comments

Farmacology good tilth

Whether it’s the soil where food is grown, the food we put in our bodies, or the writing we put on the page, we need good tilth. Charity Singleton Craig discusses the natural and self-sustaining nutrient cycles in our Farmacology book club.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, Farmacology, Patron Only, poetry prompt, writing prompt, writing prompts

Where Foreshadowing and Symbolism Meet: Adumbration

By Charity Singleton Craig 10 Comments

Train tracks adumbration

Create layers and depth in your writing by trying the technique of adumbration, which occurs at the intersection of foreshadowing and symbolism. Charity Singleton Craig explains how.

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Friendship Project: On Writing Well — Just Say It

By Callie Feyen 6 Comments

Autumn leaf pair

Callie Feyen finds the page more forgiving than the podium, and friendship more forgiving yet.

Filed Under: Blog, Friendship Project, Patron Only, Writing Life

5 Simple Tricks to Make Space for Your Writing

By L.L. Barkat 18 Comments

Foggy space

At every stage of the writing process, mental space is a must. Try these 5 simple tricks to create must-have space (and avoid the McDonald’s Effect). One of the tricks might especially surprise you.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, writer's group resources, Writing Life

Read Like a Writer: Second Person Narrative Voice in Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric”

By Charlotte Donlon 6 Comments

2nd Person Narrative Voice Claudia Rankine

Charlotte Donlon explores use of the second person narrative voice through the work of Claudia Rankine— and helps writers discover something surprising that’s within their power to do.

Filed Under: Black Poets, Blog, Read Like a Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Read Like a Writer: C.E. Morgan’s Personification Technique in “All the Living”

By Charlotte Donlon 13 Comments

Read Like a Writer personification

In the latest Read Like a Writer column, Charlotte Donlon explores the use of personification technique to bring words to life.

Filed Under: Blog, Read Like a Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Read Like a Writer: Mary Oliver’s “Upstream”

By Charlotte Donlon 8 Comments

Reading Like a Writer Mary Oliver Upstream

Charlotte Donlon invites us to “read like a writer,” discovering both a rich past and an immediate present in the present tense writing of Mary Oliver’s “Upstream.”

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Read Like a Writer, writing prompts, Writing Tips

Build Your Writing Momentum, With Some Editor TLC

By Will Willingham 12 Comments

Editor TLC orange buds opening

Want to be a better writer? Learn helpful editorial tips in community at our new live Editor TLC events.

Filed Under: Blog, Editing, Editor TLC, Patron Publishing Opportunties, writing prompt, Writing Tips

3 Ways to Improve Your Writing This Summer with Booth Tarkington

By Charity Singleton Craig 8 Comments

Got the summer writing blues? Charity Singleton Craig shares 3 tips inspired by Hoosier author Booth Tarkington to improve your writing this summer.

Filed Under: Blog, Regional Tour, Summer Read!, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Audubon’s Birds and the Habits of Nature Writing

By Charity Singleton Craig 2 Comments

John James Audubon and Nature Writing

John James Audubon’s meticulous and detailed approach to studying birds can inspire not only the nature writer but anyone wishing to write more vividly.

Filed Under: Blog, nature

Can Your Distractions Make You a Better Writer?

By Charity Singleton Craig 10 Comments

Can Distractions Make You a Better Writer bubbles in field

Can being distracted make you a better writer? Charity Singleton Craig explores the ways we can use our distractions to fuel creativity and even improve our writing.

Filed Under: Blog, Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

Poets and Writers Toolkit: Play-Doh Creative Nonfiction

By Callie Feyen 9 Comments

Play Doh Creative Nonfiction Activity

Teacher and writer Callie Feyen has been there—not knowing how to resolve a story, not knowing what to write and how. Her advice is to get some Play-Doh.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, Teach It, Writing Tips

Poets & Writers Toolkit: 3 Ways Reading Will Make You a Better Writer

By Charity Singleton Craig 4 Comments

3 Ways Reading will make you a better writer purple flowers

You can read without writing, but good writing calls for reading. Charity Singleton Craig has three great ways reading will make you a better writer.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, Writing Tips

The Word-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Writing

By Charity Singleton Craig 23 Comments

Tidying up your writing - dog in wicker basket

Charity Singleton Craig applies the tidying principles of the KonMari organization method to your writing. Will it change your life?

Filed Under: Become a Better Writer, Blog, Write, Writing Tips

A Way With Words: Canon and Cannon

By Sara Barkat 5 Comments

homophones canon and cannon

In today’s A Way With Words, Sara Barkat amuses us with the difference between the homophones canon and cannon.

Filed Under: A Way With Words, Vocabulary

Poets & Writers Toolkit: Use Your Hands

By Will Willingham 28 Comments

Poets and Writers Toolkit Use Your Hands - little girl on beach

Research shows a connection between what we do with our hands and brain function. Here’s how to make your hands a top tool in your Poets & Writers Toolkit.

Filed Under: Blog, Poets and Writers Toolkit, Writing Tips

On Being a Writer Book Club: Surround

By Will Willingham 11 Comments

On Being a Writer

We conclude our group discussion of On Being a Writer by considering the things with which a writer might surround himself to influence his writing.

Filed Under: Blog, book club, On Being a Writer, writer's group resources, Writing Life

Creativity Inside the Box: The Freedom of Constraint

By Charity Singleton Craig 12 Comments

Creativity inside the box blue park benches

Would imposing constraints help or hinder your creativity? Charity Singleton Craig explores both sides of working inside and thinking outside the box.

Filed Under: Creativity, Writing Life, Writing Tips

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