When your story is falling flat and you're wondering if you should abandon it, DON'T! Learn how to use The Frankenstein Technique (juxtaposition, causality, and subtext) to bring deeper themes to your story and reinvigorate it with new life.
Read moreWriting Workout Winter 2016: Update #2
This week I felt the magical butterflies that carried me through week 1 wear off. This week was hard. Plain and simple. But I got through it, and you can too! Check out what I read and wrote this week!
Read moreHow Write About Big Themes Without Being Too Sentimental or Cliche
We write “about” the world. We write to document the human experience: the beauty, the chaos, the pain, the sentiment. We want to write something real. But how do we evoke it without falling into cliche? Poet Joy Katz shows us how to defeat that pesky cloud of "aboutness" when it comes to big themes once and for all. Here’s how she got me to think about common, but big themes in a whole new way.
Read moreWriting Workout Winter 2016 Edition
Do you need to get back into the habit of reading and writing? Check out the Writing Workout Winter 2016 Edition. Featuring a regimented course syllabus of what to read and what to write, you're sure to kick your writing life's butt back into shape.
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