May 15 2 min Writing Prompt: What Have You Seen With Your Own Eyes? WASHOUT -- The sea turtle eggs, round and pale as golf balls, gaped from the side of the dune where the overheated, angry ocean had...
Nov 14, 2020 2 min Down the Rabbit Hole: Craft Notes Jake Wolff recently won the Internet. Wolff, a creative writing professor, editor and director of The Florida Review, and author of The...
Oct 18, 2020 1 min The FWA Saves 2020 2020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold...
Jan 5, 2020 5 min Writing Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place? My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the...
Jul 28, 2019 3 min Writing Prompt: You See a Body of Water ... Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is...
Jul 2, 2019 3 min Me Write Pretty One Day Whenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...
Jun 9, 2019 2 min The 13 Moons of Writer's Block “It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might...
Jun 9, 2019 2 min Plot Goddess Invents QVC Queen The struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest, an editor whose opinion I trust (Kim Sheeter) pointed out...
Jun 9, 2019 1 min Epic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's Block In my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or...
