One Simple Tip To Improve Your Description - Two blindfolded people feel an elephant. The one holding the trunk thinks 'snake', the one at the back thinks 'couch'.
Writing
Robert Wood

One Simple Tip To Improve Your Description

When it comes to writing description, advice tends to be sparse. Where should you focus? What’s important? When has a descriptive passage outstayed its welcome? They’re difficult questions because they deal with subjective tastes, but there’s one piece of advice that you can use as your guiding light. It’s that piece of advice that we’ll

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Is A Writing Retreat Right For You? - An author lays in a hammock on a desert island.
Writing
Paige Duke

Is A Writing Retreat Right For You?

Is a writing retreat right for you? To some, it sounds indulgent, but there are other ways of asking the same question. For example, do you find yourself working constantly? When you slow down and take time for yourself, do you feel guilty? Are you in a constant state of busyness? For some, this feels

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8 Radical Writing Opportunities (That Pay) - The Cheshire Cat sits in a tree, texting.
Publishing
Robert Wood

8 Radical Writing Opportunities (That Pay)

If you’re a young person in the modern workforce (or you know one) you’re likely familiar with job listings that target their salaries and responsibilities at recent graduates while asking for a decade or more of experience in the field. ‘How can I get experience if you won’t give me any experience?’ goes the job-hunter’s

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What You Need To Know About Literary Fiction - A woman reads a book with a cup of coffee.
Writing
Fred Johnson

What You Need To Know About Literary Fiction

If genre fiction is Die Hard, The Notebook, and The Hangover – stuff you watch to relax and eat popcorn to – literary fiction is the opposite. It’s the Citizen Kane, The Pianist, the There Will Be Blood of the literary world – books you wouldn’t necessarily call a ‘good time’ but that are artistic,

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