It was an essay about climate change. At least that is what I wanted the essay to be about. I wrote passionately about finding trash on the trail, the bear hunter who passed us on the road, a meadow in…
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What I am Trying to Say: A Micro Lesson in Revising for Truth by CMarie Fuhrman
Posted Wed, 10/09/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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Using Sound: An Exercise by Corinne Manning
Posted Fri, 10/04/2019 - 9:10am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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In a workshop, the writer Dorothy Allison had us go around the room and all fake an orgasm. She critiqued the authenticity and then had us write a sex scene where sound was present. This idea came up when she…
4 Tips for Writing Good Dialogue by Ana Pastor
Posted Tue, 10/01/2019 - 9:01am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Writing for the stage offered me an opportunity to explore the mechanics of dialogue. In a play, the spoken word carries a weight that in other genres it shares with written descriptions, insights into situations, references… On stage the word…
Seven Signs You Should Write a Novella by Jesse Edward Johnson
Posted Mon, 9/30/2019 - 9:41am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Do you write fiction? Maybe you’ve got a shoebox full of short stories, or the drafts of various novels. Maybe you haven’t yet found the right form in which to realize the full potential of your story. Maybe you’re wondering…
How to Find Story Ideas when You’re Feeling Uninspired by Alma García
Posted Fri, 9/27/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Creativity is a slippery thing. There’s nothing so thrilling as being in the flow of the creative zone…until the day your inspiration is gone. Then it’s like you’ve been dumped on the side of the highway. You’re lost, tired, stuck,…
Micro-Lesson: Goal vs. Need by Jeff Bender
Posted Thu, 9/12/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Writing Advice
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There are a lot of names for these two ideas. Whatever we call them, they can shape some of our biggest decisions as storytellers. The Goal, or what Robert McKee (Story) calls the “conscious desire,” is the concrete and unconcealed…
What Can We Learn from Harry Potter? by Karen Finneyfrock
Posted Tue, 9/10/2019 - 9:41am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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It was July 2007 and I was in line outside the bookstore at quarter to midnight. I was in Maryland and the mosquitos were still biting and the heat of the day clung to the sidewalk. I was only a…
Titles That Don’t Let You Go by Susanne Paola Antonetta
Posted Tue, 8/20/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Writing, Writing Advice
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Writing a title for a flash fiction or nonfiction piece is like dipping your oar into the roaring water while whitewater rafting. That oar stroke had better do some major work. The flash title is the oar that steers your little…
Writing Prompt: Affected Bodies, Trauma, and Non-Human Encounters by Janice Lee
Posted Thu, 8/01/2019 - 9:45am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing Advice
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What really exists is not things made but things in the making. —William James How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things. —Eduardo Kohn In my upcoming class, Memory Space: Inherited…
Navigating to the Heart of the Story by Diana Xin
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I just need to find the right way to write this. This is the refrain that comes up sometimes when I open a new blank document for an old story I’ve tried to write about seven times over the course…
Micro Lesson: A Short Meditation on the Glamorous Refusal of No! by Anastacia-Renée
Posted Fri, 7/12/2019 - 4:21pm by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry, Writing, Writing Advice
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In the beginning of my writing career, it was a given that I’d say “Absolutely” or “Yes” to almost anything asked of me—oftentimes watching others reaping the benefits or, even worse, finding out that the heartfelt energy I’d put into…
Micro Lesson: Dig Deep into Character by Stephanie Kuehnert
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Characters are the reason I write. Their voices lodge themselves in my brain. They tug on my sleeve and insist that I tell their stories. The greatest compliment that I can get as a writer is that my characters stay…
What’s Your Romance Voice & Style? by Eilis Flynn
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Have you ever picked up a book—a romance, one that the blurb promises to be a story that’s right up your alley—and found that it just doesn’t do it for you? The story, the theme, even the author, they all…
Micro Lesson: How to Write Yourself Home by Merna Ann Hecht
Posted Fri, 6/28/2019 - 9:43am by Guest Contributor | Category: Creative Nonfiction, Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry
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“To be an immigrant is to always live in some state of exile, even if its shadow seems to have grown faint inside us; you cannot forget your old homes, no matter how comfortingly familiar your new destination becomes, or…
Micro Lesson: Writing Short by Stephanie Hammer and Samantha Updegrave
Posted Tue, 4/30/2019 - 9:12am by Guest Contributor | Category: Fiction, Hugo Classes, Micro Lesson, Poetry
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As MFA classmates, we had the fun and honor of learning how to write short forms with a master of both the prose poem and flash fiction: the speculative writer Bruce Holland Rogers. Bruce is famous for coming up with…
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