Our Craft column archive, which features an array of guest contributors.
Any writer who has been at it for a while knows what throwaways are, although you might have another name for them. Exercises, warm-ups, unfinished pieces, maybe the ever-optimistic “works in progress.”
In the waning days of the holiday season, I’d like to share three of these pearls with Hippocampus readers.
…45 percent of writers said they watched a funny animal video to help get them through a creative block. Four percent said they stopped writing to have sex…
The almost irresistible temptation for a writer is to rush to get it all down while the story is fresh. But there is a danger in that sense of urgency.
… you’ve likely heard the phrase “literary citizenship.” It’s been around for a while, but over the past couple of years has become part of the lexicon.
According to my dictionary app, craft is defined as an “art, trade or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill.”
Where will your writing life take you? If you don’t sit down, get started and roll the die by submitting your work, you’ll never know.
In November of 2011, armed with a notebook and stress-induced diarrhea, I entered my inaugural writing workshop…
When a writer chooses to tell a story, we—the readers—must be made to understand several things: Why this story? Why this writer? And why now?
Reading in other genres might feel like too large a time commitment, or might even be a bit scary.
