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The Worst Thing I’ve Ever Written

Emily Mosher - November 14, 2015

I haven’t participated in NaNoWriMo since 2012, but I’m still reaping the writing rewards of that one year. My fiction before that NaNoWriMo had been mostly successful. All of my plays were awarded staged readings and most of my short stories got published. Of course, I had only written two plays and three short stories […]

Cheering from the sidelines

Emily Mosher - November 7, 2015

I am not doing NaNoWriMo, and it feels like I’m opting out of a big party in order to study or something.

What the Finale of How I Met Your Mother Can Teach Us about Writing

Jack Campbell, Jr. - April 1, 2014

Monday night, CBS ended the long-running series How I Met Your Mother with a much-hyped finale. The way the series ended brought to mind a major point about writing. Series finales are always heavily-contested. For one, people have come to know and love the characters and will miss them. In the case of How I […]

All My Best Writing Starts Out as Fanfic

Aspen Junge - January 30, 2014

I am scheduled to give you a flash fiction today. It’s not going to happen. About a month ago, I discovered the TV show Supernatural, and immediately became obsessed [0]. All of my non-work, non-sleep time has been spent catching up on the glory of all things Winchester. There’s eight and a half seasons just […]

The Evolution of an Idea: Murph’s Law

Jack Campbell, Jr. - January 27, 2014

People often ask writers where they get their ideas. There are a lot of answers to that question. I think everyone does it a bit differently. A month ago, I published the story “Murph’s Law” on this site. You can find it here. A couple of readers wrote me and asked where it came from. […]