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Writing Tips

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How to Write About Your Disability

  • Rebecca Swanson
  • June 28, 2017
It’s like having the hiccups, you write instead. Everyone has had hiccups, after all. Accuracy is secondary to relatability, because you are tired, now, and twitchy, and the giant’s hands are pressing harder as you write.
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FUNNY WOMEN #151: Creative Writing Tips

  • Anita Gill
  • March 14, 2017
Need to write something for some reason? Here's how.
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Greatest Hits of the Heart

  • Stephanie Bento
  • December 30, 2015
Patience. Curiosity. Repetition. Looking again and again. Not imposing a story line. Letting composition emerge through pattern, rhythm, shape, sound, movement. Occasionally … you hit upon a moment of grace.…
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How to Write (for Actual Legal Tender)

  • Alex Norcia
  • May 14, 2014
Over at The Awl, Heather Havrilesky, a writer without an MFA, has some humorous and candid freelancing tips for her MFA students and us readers. Havrilesky knows we’ll appreciate this advice,…
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Insert Short Story Here

  • Casey Dayan
  • April 25, 2014
[Beginning in media res in mother’s house.] [Sufficiently dramatic exposition with an obvious, planted echo to the story’s climax.] Story in need of kindling? Take a gander at this short…
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10 Tips On Writing From Joyce Carol Oates

  • Ashley Perez
  • October 25, 2013
Write your heart out. The first sentence can be written only after the last sentence has been written. FIRST DRAFTS ARE HELL. FINAL DRAFTS, PARADISE. You are writing for your…
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Writing Rules From Colson Whitehead

  • Jack Taylor
  • July 30, 2012
Want a free writing lesson? Colson Whitehead has some helpful tips over at The New York Times’ Sunday Book Review. If you missed it, be sure to read Nancy Smith’s Rumpus interview with…
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