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Short, Direct, and with Style
Kelly Luce’s story “Rooey” was first published by The Literary Review. It will also appear in her forthcoming collection Three Scenarios in Which Hana Sasaki Grows a Trail. I’ve heard it claimed that...
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How to Use Repetition in a Story
Matthew Salesses’ story “In My War Novel” was a finalist at HTMLGIANT and appeared in Fictionaut, a journal that creates reading and writing communities using the tools of social media. One of the...
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How to Create Your Narrator’s Voice
Joe R. Lansdale’s new novel The Thicket follows a band of unlikely heroes on an adventure in turn-of-the-century East Texas. You can read a free excerpt on Facebook. No aspect of writing fiction is...
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How to Describe a Thing Without Naming It
Justin Carroll’s story “Darryl Strawberry” was published in Gulf Coast 26.1. The smartest thing I ever heard in a writing workshop was Tim O’Brien’s exhortation to avoid unintentional repetition: never...
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How to Control Narrative Pace with Sentence Structure
The writing in Jennifer Dubois’ novel Cartwheel was described in The New York Times as “a pleasure: electric, fine-tuned, intelligent, conflicted.” Maybe you’ve had this experience: you’re deep into a...
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How to Write a One-Sentence Paragraph
Adrian Van Young’s story, “The Skin Thing,” was featured on Electric Literature‘s Recommended Reading blog and will appear in the science flash fiction anthology Gigantic Worlds. In composition writing...
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How to Break the Narrative Frame
Murray Farish’s story collection, Inappropriate Behavior, was called “the best first collection I have read in years” by Elizabeth McCracken. As writers, we often find ourselves frustrated at the...
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How to Write Break the Contract with Your Reader
Murray Farish’s story collection, Inappropriate Behavior, was called “the best first collection I have read in years” by Elizabeth McCracken. In stories and novels, we occasionally write ourselves into...
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How to Create Space for Digression
Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer has been called “a triumph of obsession” by Matt Bell. For certain kinds of readers and writers, the best part of any...
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