Craft Hacks

Writing prompts, revision tips, how to improve your writing on a sentence by sentence level, how the hell to find a plot if you don't have one, and much more.

This week I'm sharing feedback on subscribers' opening pages (literary fiction/nonfiction) - with a focus on humor
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We continue our 6-week long Opening Pages Intensive with a focus on world-building in genre fiction (sci-fi, dystopian, thriller in this post)
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Tips on establishing setting in literary fiction and nonfiction for people like me who don't know the name of trees and bushes. Plus, an open call for…
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Good sex, bad sex, selfish sex, and everything in between—it's a Valentine's Day newsletter dedicated to sex-writing.
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"Write every day" is classist advice. It also doesn't work.
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In which we review subscriber's opening sentences from books that focus on place.
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Featuring live critiques and a guest appearance by Dani Shapiro (Part I)
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