Storyville: Critical Analysis—An Essential Part of Your Process
How to apply critical analysis to your own writing.
Storyville: 10 Tips on How to Be a Good Critique Partner
Advice on how to be a good critique partner, no matter what the situation.
Storyville: Advanced Writing Workshop Tips, Tricks, and Techniques
Applying edits, pushing yourself, and writing to a specific market. Some additional tips to help you survive the workshop environment.
Storyville: How to Survive a Creative Writing Workshop
A guide to surviving your creative writing workshop.
Rejection: A Critical Device
Got a story that keeps getting turned down for publication? Here's how you can use industry rejection as a critical tool to improve your work.
Storyville: The Horror of Editing and Revision
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editing, fiction writing, Grammar, Plot, Revision, Rewriting, Storyville, Structure, Vocabulary, Workshop
It's been said that the difference between a good writer and a great writer is editing. So let's hop to it.
Stocking Stuffers: 13 Writing Tips From Chuck Palahniuk
Christmas comes early today! In this essay Chuck provides a grab-bag of incredibly useful ideas that don't require too much individual elaboration. From delineating the three types of speech, to simple maxims for the writing life.
When You Can’t Find a Writing Workshop…
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Workshop
When you can't find a writing workshop, you can still find a setting where you're almost forced to daydream. Chuck paints some funny options for this while recommending that you daydream with a pen in your hand.