…chance to distill your many ideas into a cohesive plot, complete with a cast of characters, an engaging story world, and a series of interesting scenes. However, outlining can be…
…your book and target audience, expectations for your blurb will vary (sometimes drastically). For example, some genres and audiences come to expect longer, more detailed blurbs (such as the self-help…
…Reverie. Her poetry has appeared in The Curry Arts Journal, Soul-Lit, The Eunoia Review, Underground Voices, and two anthologies. Learn more about Sara at her personal blog, Facebook, and Twitter….
…can help their community, they return home to face their story’s conflict. Finally, they end their arc at peace, acting as a bridge between their community and the outside world….
…Literary Agency, is fluent in book and movie quotes, and loves a long walk with good company, which includes audiobooks and two- and four-legged babies and buddies. You can learn more…
…comes down to three things: secrets, mistakes and shame. As Maass explained in the workshop: “Secrets, mistakes and shame are powerful, powerful story tools.” Essentially, the message of this workshop…
…outsider, and Aria, a dweller, exiled from her pod home for a crime she didn’t commit, who are forced to work together and undertake a journey, Aria to reunite with…
…prose. It’s a bit more complicated than that, though. Why aren’t works like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil’s Aeneid called epic poems and not verse novels? After all, they…
…only about the most unusual of lives – heroes, survivors, the super-rich, super talented, or otherwise larger-than-life. Moreover, a well-written biography is not just a list of facts, it’s a…
…MFA-vs.-Not-MFA debate a bit ridiculous. When I created DIY MFA, I wanted to offer writers an alternative context, a different “education sandbox” to play in, as it were. After all…
