As the World Burns – 5 Steps Toward Creating Through the Chaos
Three years ago, our neighborhood was evacuated while we were out of town for a family wedding. I kept joking to anyone who would listen that I had my family and my laptop and that was enough, but I wasn’t okay. Especially after a friend called and told me two houses on our street burned down but she didn’t know which.
Summer Flash Fiction Festival!
Are you, like us, longing for a little vacation with friends and family? Are you, like us, struggling to nurture your creativity amid chaos? Ready to give your writer’s block a vacation? We are, too! Come join us for our Summer Flash Fiction Festival! Is this a contest?
How to Write Black Characters: An Incomplete Guide
You care about writing diversely. You know how important it is to have accurate representation in your stories. You want to include characters whose experience is outside of yours. It’s easy to find examples of writing gone wrong, but where do you start to get it right?
How Plot and Character Intersect with Sensitivity Reading
The best way to understand a period in history is to look at the culture’s art and literature. Who knows how historians will make sense of what was said and done in our current era, but living in this moment, the changes that are occurring in fiction are already apparent.
Five Things That Make a Good Query Letter
Hello, beautiful people! Today I want to talk about the thing that scared me the most when I first started looking for a literary agent: the dreaded query letter. I not only was jumping into judgment for the first time, but I had absolutely no idea where to start.
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