Storyville: Critical Analysis—An Essential Part of Your Process
How to apply critical analysis to your own writing.
Storyville: 10 Tips on How to Be a Good Critique Partner
Advice on how to be a good critique partner, no matter what the situation.
Storyville: Advanced Writing Workshop Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Applying edits, pushing yourself, and writing to a specific market. Some additional tips to help you survive the workshop environment.
Is Crosstalk Killing Your Feedback?
By Peter Derk
What is crosstalk, and how is it ruining your workshop?
The 12 Steps for Struggling Writers
If these steps can help alcoholics stay sober, maybe they can also help struggling writers.
Anatomy of a Mini Flash Novel Experiment: Angel Dust
By Alex Behr
"Planet Grim" Author Alex Behr turns prompts into experimental prose.
Storyville: How to Survive a Creative Writing Workshop
A guide to surviving your creative writing workshop.
How Journalism Can Help Polish Your Fiction
By Troy Farah
Journalism is an often ignored way to develop strong writing skills. When applied to fiction, the results can be outstanding. Just ask authors like Hemingway and Palahniuk, who were once reporters.
5 Reasons A Good Writing Group Can Save You
What can a good writing group do for you? Almost everything.
Thickening Skin: 6 Tips for Taking Criticism
Tips for how to take criticism—including both constructive feedback and more volatile attacks on your work.
Rejection: A Critical Device
Got a story that keeps getting turned down for publication? Here's how you can use industry rejection as a critical tool to improve your work.
10 Stories We Never Need to See in Workshops Again
A list of the some of the most predictable, clichéd storylines that somehow continue to appear in fiction workshops again, and again, and again.
Technology: Help Or Hindrance To Writers?
Is technology increasing your productivity as a writer or distracting your muse?
Getting Over It, Getting It Out: On Embracing A Bad First Draft
Let's face it: the first draft of anything is going to be awful. That's okay. In fact, here's why it's encouraged.
Why I Volunteer for Writing Festivals like Wordstock (and Why You Should, Too)
Volunteering for Wordstock keeps me sane. You should try it!
Storyville: The Horror of Editing and Revision
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editing, fiction writing, Grammar, Plot, Revision, Rewriting, Storyville, Structure, Vocabulary, Workshop
It's been said that the difference between a good writer and a great writer is editing. So let's hop to it.
Some Practical Writing Advice From Douglas Coupland
The Bestselling author of "Generation X" and "Girlfriend In A Coma" gives some simple advice picked up during his 25 years as a writer.
Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk
Christmas comes early today! In this essay Chuck provides a grab-bag of incredibly useful ideas that don't require too much individual elaboration. From delineating the three types of speech, to simple maxims for the writing life.
When You Can’t Find a Writing Workshop…
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Workshop
When you can't find a writing workshop, you can still find a setting where you're almost forced to daydream. Chuck paints some funny options for this while recommending that you daydream with a pen in your hand.
