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Tips for Winning/Surviving NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month)!

By Kimberly Terasaki Nov 1st
Get Ready to Actually Write Your Novel This November as NaNoWriMo Turns 25

By D.R. Medlen Oct 11th
Redditors Found the Perfect Way To Make AI Writing Take Itself Down

By Rachel Ulatowski Aug 7th
How One of the Biggest Literary Agencies in Publishing Lost Almost All Credibility Overnight

By Kimberly Terasaki May 16th
Being a Debut Author Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up To Be

By El Kuiper Apr 25th
Writers: A Beloved Internet Poet Has the Daily Writing Prompt Series You Need in Your Life

By Madeline Carpou Apr 3rd
The Worst Opening Sentence Written This Year Has Officially Been Found

By Madeline Carpou Dec 13th
How I Manage Both Science & Writing Fantasy

By Elisa Bonnin Aug 12th
Alberta Essay Contest on How Women Contribute to Society Awards 3rd Place To White Replacement Theory Entry

By Alyssa Shotwell Aug 11th
Man Reads Girlfriend’s Old High School “Erotic” Writing Without Permission

By Briana Lawrence Apr 26th
What is Blackout Poetry and How is It Made?

By Julia Glassman Feb 21st
5 New Books to Help Process the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Alyssa Shotwell Jan 31st
8 Bits of (Hopefully) Encouraging Advice on How to Tackle NaNoWriMo This Month

By Briana Lawrence Nov 1st
Things We Saw Today: Very Serious Novel Caught Borrowing From … Zelda?!

By Jessica Mason Aug 3rd
Anyone Else Feel Like Their Creativity Is Totally Dead?

By Kaila Hale-Stern Jul 30th
Let People Organize Their Bookshelves by Color If They Want!

By Jessica Mason Jul 16th
Our Books, Our Shelves: On Persistence, Nearly Giving Up, and Writing On

By Kaila Hale-Stern Jun 23rd
Bojack Horseman Tackles the Suffering Artist Trope in a Standout Episode

By Chelsea Steiner Feb 1st
Does Switching to Comic Sans Really Fix Writer’s Block?

By Kaila Hale-Stern Oct 30th
Five Subtle Ways to Bring Your Worldbuilding to Life

By Dan Van Winkle Jan 29th