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Writing Tips for Retelling Shakespeare: From Atwood’s Hag-Seed to Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius

Novelist Pat McKee shares 5 writing tips he learned while retelling Shakespeare’s play Tempest as the novel Ariel’s Island.

Pat McKeePublished Mar 10, 2020 4:47 PM PDT

Writing Techniques Will’s Way: Four Timely Craft Tips from the Immortal Bard Karin Abarbanel

What's New Electric, Neon, Salsa-Dancing Energy, or Finding Your Writing Voice Adam Brandner

Writing Articles Writing Multiple Points of View Wendy Heard

Write Better Fiction Forced Proximity: 50 Reasons for Your Characters to Be Stuck Together Bryn Donovan

Writing Techniques 5 Goals for Making Your Anthology the Best That It Can Be Marika Lindholm

Writing Techniques Lost in Iceland: Searching for a Better Writing Process Nick Petrie

Writing Habits and Practices Healthy Writing Habits: All in the Wrist E. L. Tenenbaum

Vintage WD Vintage WD: What Is the Writer’s Social Responsibility?Amy Jones

Writing Habits and Practices Rolling the Dice: 5 Ways D&D and “Critical Role” Made Me a Better Storyteller Angela Mitchell

Writing Your First Draft Writing a Novel? Here are Seven Friends You Need Karen Dukess

Write Better Nonfiction Nothing Is Fiction Fred Waitzkin

Write Better Fiction Blurred Lines: Writing Historical Fiction From Fact Melanie Benjamin

Writing Articles It’s Great to Suck at Writing Karen Rinaldi

The Writer's Life 8 Traits I Wish Employers Knew About Writers E. L. Tenenbaum

Writing Techniques Tips for Writing About Controversial Topics in Fiction Bryan Gruley

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