Repo Kempt

Sudowrite: An AI Fiction Writing Software Review

A review of Sudowrite, fiction writing software that uses AI to generate content.
Jay Wilburn

Why Every Author Should Write Haiku

There are important things prose authors can learn by experimenting with haiku. It is an easy artform to take up, but difficult to master.
Jessica Marie Baumgartner

Dyslexic Author is my Favorite Oxymoron

Why would anyone with dyslexia try to be a writer? Ask Anne Rice, Richard Ford, or sit down and let me tell you my story.
Repo Kempt

Writing Horror Using All Five Senses

How to effectively use sensory details to connect with readers and maximize the fear in your writing.
Chuck Palahniuk

The Haunting: How To Conquer The Shame Of Being A Writer

An essay about why the vocation of writing can sometimes feel shameful, and how to own that shame and then eventually conquer it.
Chuck Palahniuk

Consider This: Undecidability

Chuck Palahniuk talks about the unresolved, and how undecidability is always more scary than simply being told the answer.
Chuck Palahniuk

Consider This: Coping

In this first of a series of new craft essays, Chuck Palahniuk displays a method for helping your characters cope against dramatic situations. He also delves into the language of singing, mantras and the importance of a good scream.
Stephen Graham Jones

As I Lay Mostly Dying

The baddest of the prose villains, that one word that, when mis-used, can single-handedly wreck an entire page of fiction for me, if not the whole piece: As.