WRITING EXERCISE

Shawna Ayoub explores Lisa Kwong's memoir as an example of using chronology to organize a life story, and offers a three-step exercise you can apply to yours.

Place becomes character when we cannot separate place from story—but how do we achieve that effect? Here are three points of focus.

Shawna Ayoub explores a retelling of a beloved classic and points out how retellings can provide structure and an end point from the start of writing.

If we don't take time to examine our feelings thoroughly, we might be limiting our ability to portray relatable feelings in our writing.

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.

There are two main ways we can start to approach dialogue in our stories: a pacing beat and an action beat.

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.

There are three basics points of view that we come across in writing poetry and fiction. Explore them with famous examples and practice with an exercise.