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

Write about a mistake that led to beauty, truth, or growth.
The ceilings in the studios had to have been 20 feet high. I loved the corner where I painted, lit by a tall, old window that was stuck closed with time...
Use the imagery and symbolism of tarot to develop a person vs. technology conflict in a new or in-progress story.
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.