How to "Show Don't Tell" Your Character's Emotions 7 comments
John Thornton Williams explains a better way to “show don’t tell” how your characters are feeling: through indirection of image, or projecting their emotions onto […]
Shaula Evans
The challenges of writing diverse characters 7 comments
A major challenge of writing diverse characters is the burden of representation.
How Gillian Flynn adapted her novel “Gone Girl” to the screen
“It was a fun, masochistic challenge to look at this 500-page book [Gone Girl: A Novel], and say, ‘Well, I’m going to have to lose […]
The story gets to be what the story wants to be
The story gets to be what the story wants to be–meaning, if I’m struggling with a story, it quite likely could be that I’m trying […]
Outdo your heroes 9 comments
Who are your heroes in your field? What would outdoing them look like? Are you aiming that high? How could you get there? Think of […]
James Baldwin: Artists are here to disturb the peace 6 comments
Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true […]
Art of Resistance 4 comments
…art of resistance (…): that is, art that works to resist erasure and oppression, art that revisits and revises history, art that that tells new […]
Louise Brooks on truth in writing 4 comments
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it — learning to write — but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first […]
What is your biggest writing obstacle? 14 comments
I want to know what’s going on with you and your writing, so I have put together a short survey to ask about the biggest […]