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- The Earned Plot Twist
- Across Time and Continents: An Interview With Novelist Michael Zapata
- Become a Good Literary Citizen
- The Power of Fiction to Change Beliefs: An Interview with Omar El Akkad
- The Power of Writerly Kindness
- Maybe No One Will Notice
- Why, Why, Why? Interrogating Characters About Their Motivations
- Novel-Writing Intensives: An Alternative to the MFA
- Putting Words On Trial
- Finding Second Life in Cast-Off Words
- It’s Time to Call Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) a Genre
- Chronicling a Non-Chronological Story: Writing a Dual Timeline Novel
- Is Your Book Movie Material?
- How to Get Insider Feedback Before Querying Your Book
- ‘Just be Patient,’ and Other Questionable Advice for Writers on Submission
- An Interview with Julia Fine, Author of What Should Be Wild
- To Thine Own (Writerly) Self Be True
- Note to Selves
- It’s Not the End of the World: Rethinking How We Tell Stories About Climate Change
- What NOT to Say When You Get “The Call”
- Writing Awe
- The Novel Pitcher’s Playbook
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Logline
- Bonding with my Protagonist over a Dirty Secret
- The Big Pitch: Gratitude Over Fear
- Choose Your Super Power
- What Are Your Intentions?
- Killing my Patronus
- Through the Eyes of an Antagonist