6 Ways Reading North & South Can Improve Your Writing
How a 19th-Century industrial novel can revolutionize the way you write Continue reading 6 Ways Reading North & South Can Improve Your Writing
Month: January 2016
The End: Arriving at a Poignant Finale
You’ve just closed a great book, your heart is bursting with too many emotions to name, and you’re startled to find that the world has still been turning without you. How do we give our own readers that experience? Here are three key elements that go a long way toward making a story unforgettable. Continue reading The End: Arriving at a Poignant Finale
Writerly Ambitions for 2016; Or, The Agonies I Inflict Upon Myself
How I learned to not wake the dead when revisiting my work, and plans for 2016. Here’s to a year of challenging though attainable goals and the endurance to meet them. Continue reading Writerly Ambitions for 2016; Or, The Agonies I Inflict Upon Myself
What Is Fiction For?
Why do we write? Many writers might answer, “Because I can’t not write,” and leave it at that. And that may be true. But why? Surely a story fulfills some intrinsic need. Continue reading What Is Fiction For?
Olivia Hofer 