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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.
In her 50th post, Helena Clare Pittman shares another chapter from her favorite of her original works, Ruthie Pincus of Brooklyn.
Shawna Ayoub highlights the use of word-count containers to focus sometimes-painful stories in a collection of 131 essays under 300 words each.
Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, returns with a full moon tarot reading and a writing exercise. Writers, break down barriers.
Consider transitions, not just the move from one thing to the next, but the actual space between. What are the emotions of change?
There are two main ways we can start to approach dialogue in our stories: a pacing beat and an action beat.
In her 49th post, Helena returns with another chapter from her middle-grade novel, about piano lessons and the value of practice and art.
Shawna Ayoub moves "beyond the book review" to dig into Jenn Givhan's use of footnotes in two poems from her latest book, Belly to the Brutal.
Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, returns with another full moon tarot reading and writing ritual. Writers, exchange a hard thing for a soft one.
Write about the idea of loving someone or something "warts and all."