Tag: creativity
Write 100 Words of Spring
Posted by Jessica Strawser | May 3, 2023
On Brevity
Posted by Jessica Strawser | May 1, 2023
Seven Ways to Jumpstart Your Imagination
Posted by Paula Munier | Jan 2, 2023
The Career Authors 11: Adriana Trigiani
by Jessica Strawser | Apr 13, 2022 | Career Authors 11
On the eve of her new release, The Good Left Undone, bestselling novelist & screenwriter Adriana Trigiani shares her best advice for writers.
Read MoreShould You Fictionalize Your Setting?
by Our Special Guest | Jun 2, 2021 | Craft
by Colleen Oakley “Setting is sometimes a character.” I’ll never forget my 11th-grade English...
Read MoreCareer Authors Round Table: On Inspiration
by Brian Andrews | Mar 31, 2021 | Craft
Join us for our first Career Authors Round Table Discussion on Inspiration.
Read MoreANATOMY OF A STORY IDEA
by Paula Munier | Aug 10, 2020 | Craft
A story is only as good as the idea on which it’s based. But coming up with a story-worthy idea that can sustain a 400-page narrative is hard enough; add in the demand for high-concept plots in today’s tough marketplace and the challenge becomes all the more difficult. Here’s how one writer does it.
Read MoreWHAT IS YOUR CREATIVE WRITER TYPE?
by Paula Munier | Aug 7, 2019 | Craft
Creativity is crucial to our writing process. But there is more than one kind of creativity–and more than one kind of creative writer. Take the quiz for clues to your own creative imagination.
Read MoreYou Create Something Out of Nothing
by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Oct 25, 2017 | Craft, Life
We type “curly.” Then delete and type “straight.” We type “brown.” Then delete and type “auburn.” We type “frowned,” then delete and type “crumbled.” Or whatever. And in our heads, a new person—with a face and desires and conflicts and intent—emerges, bit by bit, dot by dot.
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