If you don’t know what a poetry open mic night is, it’s a bit like a music open mic night where musicians with different levels of experience get...

When I teach worldbuilding to my creative writing students, I encourage them to begin freely. Soon, though, we start to formulate – not rules,...

The Always Take Notes book is a compilation of writing advice from great authors, based on the popular podcast of the same name, hosted by...

Before you can start writing a memoir, you need to know how that differs from an autobiography. They're both very similar, but they're usually...

As writer and reader, I want to feel what’s happening to the characters, to be moved by their story—left uplifted or devastated, to feel...

Every story, no matter the trimmings, asks: ‘What am I? Who am I when the light goes out?’ A checklist or a cheat sheet cannot accomplish this...