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By Elissa Jacobs My memoir was written at sloth-speed. More than a decade from the first words on the page to a full first draft; more than five years beginning from when I “got se...
“For me, the hope was to make a human connection, help the student think creatively, and teach skills that would help not just the current paper, but their future writing as well.”
My “unstructured play notebook” is like a friend who holds all my secrets. By Chelene Knight I recently asked a room full of nonfiction writers to share an object that held value t...
The object is never the subject. The object is the lens. By Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. I did not set out to write a memoir. I set out to write about my stomach. Specifically, the com...
Leena Wilde Ryan walked into her grandmother's funeral relieved to have a break from her writing job. She walked out having delivered what she calls "the best stand-up routine of m...
A mother, a son, and the brutal telling that ended usContinue reading on The Narrative Arc »
By Dawn M. Smith When I started writing my memoir about working at The Marine Mammal Center in Northern California in the ‘80s and ‘90s, my goal was to have people vicariously expe...
Writer Mandy Len Catron finally finished a book proposal she began in 2019. A publisher liked it, but was hesitant to proceed because of similar books on the market. Then someone a...
How We Maintained Our Daily Writers’ Group By Dr. Nancy Glass I was desperate to finish my nonfiction manuscript, frustrated by lack of discipline to write every day, in despair at...
It doesn’t knock. It seeps through the cracks in the quiet parts of the day, sits beside me like it owns the place.Continue reading on Medium »
By Sarah Curtis In the spring of last year, I mailed my father a copy of my manuscript before my publisher sent it to press. Since it was about him, I thought he deserved the final...
By Ethan Gilsdorf I spent the formative years of my childhood with a Super 8 movie camera and, later in high school, in the clunky medium of ¾ inch video, creating DIY claymation...
“I think you have to interpret ‘Write what you know’ much more broadly than that. We’re talking about emotional truth here. We’re talking…Continue reading on Go Into The Story »
An essay can have benefits beyond those that come from publication By Elizabeth Roper Marcus Shortly after taking up writing in my late 40s, I finished a memoir piece I was proud o...
How “lore” turns fact into fiction — and vice versa.
By Megan Baxter I have a confession to make. I am absolutely, completely, totally obsessed with my trail cameras. Every morning, I wake up excited not for breakfast, certainly not...
By Amy Monticello If there’s a “sweet spot” for an essay’s word count—say, 2,000-4,500 words, as many journals list in their submission guidelines—it has mostly eluded me. Maybe it...
How does one begin to write about something as all-encompassing as our shared climate? How does one represent our climate’s myriad networks, especially if we are not actively taugh...
An introduction from the author “Blue Spark” came about when the incredible writer and editor Jennifer Kabat asked me to contribute to a nonfiction publication she’d started with t...
Have you ever considered using your own creative writing as a psychotherapeutic tool much as you might someone else's? It's fascinating and enriches the therapy in unexpected ways.
By Beth Mead The first time it felt physically painful for me to write an essay was when the piece was mostly done, but I knew I had to add a paragraph describing the guy who hurt...
A composite self-portrait. The post An Accounting. appeared first on Magpie by Jen Shoop.
On intellectual exposure, what the reader is owed, and why safe writing and honest writing are not the same thingContinue reading on Medium »
by Danya Kaufmann I spent a couple weeks in Dharamshala one summer, up in the lush green mountains of Northern India. The village was enveloped by a magical mist, and I was in heav...
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