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

Capture the sensory experience of a favorite back-to-school or classroom memory.
August's prompt is about using the imagery of tarot and the remembered elements of dreams to create story scenes.
The air was enchanted, electrified with what I can only call the love that moved between the four of us, who had experienced something so other than the war, of such a different order than a world of folly...
Isabel Cañas is a Mexican American writer and author of Vampires of El Norte, a historical fantasy with a speculative take on vampires.
What future would you make? What future do you fear? If you could know the future, would you want to?
I was fascinated by the Amish and the picture I took, with my eyes, and all my senses, the clop clopping of the horses, their smell...
Making art matters, and writing is an act of survival.
Sequoia Nagamatsu's How High We Go In the Dark, is an exploration of hope when humanity uncovers an ancient virus that threatens its existence.
One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.

Helena Clare Pittman, one of the Center’s most dedicated teachers, has written, painted, and taught her entire life. In her monthly Helena Writes series, she shares a lifetime of wisdom, one pearl at a time.

In her 67th post, Helena recalls some of the sounds of the old Brooklyn building that was her first adult home. Enjoy!