Guest Bloggers
Fresh Voices. New Ideas. Shared Expertise.
Guest bloggers offer fresh perspectives, diverse voices, and valuable knowledgeable about the craft and business of writing.
By sharing their knowledge, guest bloggers offer meaningful insights to our writing community.
Most Recent Guest Blogger:
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As writers, we’re often . . .
“As writers, we’re often trained to seek momentum—significant events, turning moments, the big emotional payoff. Especially in memoir, there’s pressure to magnify the trauma or spin a grand arc of triumph. But when I sat down to write, what called to me weren’t the headlines. It was the folds in between.” — Mary Monoky, “What
Recent Guest Bloggers
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Debra Koehler
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Samantha Rose
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Kathy Guthormsen
Guest Blogger Posts
The content below is in date order
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Even Introverts Can Support Authors
Charlotte Wilkins We had an interesting discussion in my Jumpstart writing group the other day about being an introvert and how hard it is sometimes to be around people. Well! As writers and readers, it’s…
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Zoom In, Then Linger
Ethan Gilsdorf on Zooming In and Lingering: “In personal essay, memoir and creative nonfiction, we want to bring to our pages a sense of verisimilitude, of intruding upon someone else’s circumstances, of grasping someone else’s…
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Fast Drafting
Zarien Hsu Gee offers “fast drafting” as a creative process: Fast drafting is a way to break through creative paralysis, to see what might be possible with an idea or writing project. When you commit…