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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.

A look at a genre-bending, Afrofuturist, speculative novel that grapples with gender, the ethics of AI, and the question of whether balance and hope are possible.
What’s the cure for what ails you, and is there a story behind it?
Loving the campers was the given. We were in sync. I wasn’t, after all, that much older than they were. I could have passed for one of them, had I worn a camp uniform...
April’s prompt is about developing a person vs. nature conflict.
Tomb Sweeping is a collection of 15 character-driven short stories about Chinese or Chinese-American characters written by Alexandra Chang.
Think of a time when you had to change, transform, reinvent yourself in order to persevere.
Here are four considerations for making the right kinds of comparisons, the ones that will build you up instead of break you down.
Writing about Percy is like trying to write about magic, or grace, or river waters flowing through my fingers.

Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, will use various tarot and oracle decks to provide monthly readings for writers, with exercises on using imagery and intuition as prompts. March’s prompt is about developing a person v. self conflict.

 

The future Yume Kitasei imagined for us is one that mirrors our present when it comes to diversity.