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The Challenges and Opportunities of Writing a Retelling, by Georgia Leighton

Writing Techniques The Challenges and Opportunities of Writing a Retelling Georgia Leighton

Healing Fiction: Storytelling and Its Power to Heal, by Liz Parker

Writing Techniques Writing Healing Fiction: Storytelling and Its Power to Heal Liz Parker

The Fracturing of the Literary "Weird Girl" - How Women Authors Use Innovative Structures to Get Inside Unhinged Characters' Minds, by Heather Colley

Character The Fracturing of the Literary “Weird Girl”—How Women Authors Use Innovative Structures to Get Inside Unhinged Characters’ Minds Heather Colley

The Power of Hopeful Fiction in Difficult Times, by Shanna Hatfield

Writing Techniques The Power of Hopeful Fiction in Difficult Times Shanna Hatfield

Why I Keep Coming Back to the Same Questions in My Novels (and Why You Should Too), by Jen Craven

Writing Techniques Why I Keep Coming Back to the Same Questions in My Novels—And Why You Should Too Jen Craven

The Healing Power of Fiction: Turning Pain Into Prose, by Somia Sadiq

Writing Techniques The Healing Power of Fiction: Turning Pain Into Prose Somia Sadiq

Magical Realism With Roots: Grounding the Fantastic in the Familiar in Fiction, by Elizabeth Bass Parman

Writing Techniques Magical Realism With Roots: Grounding the Fantastic in the Familiar in Fiction Elizabeth Bass Parman

Tension, Twists, and Happily Ever Afters: 5 Things I Learned in Switching Genres, by Kathleen Barber

Writing Techniques Tension, Twists, and Happily Ever Afters: 5 Things I Learned in Switching Genres Kathleen Barber

Where I'm Writing From: How Experience Shapes Everything in Fiction, by James Wade

Writing Techniques Where I’m Writing From: How Experience Shapes Everything in Fiction James Wade

Drafting and Revising: Do Authors Have to Love Both?, by Khadijah VanBrakle

Revising & Editing Drafting & Revising: Do Authors Have to Love Both?Khadijah VanBrakle

Writing Techniques How to Choose the Best POV in Fiction Barbara Josselsohn

8 Tips for Increasing Tension in Any Genre, by Laura Resau

Writing Techniques 8 Tips for Increasing Tension in Any Genre Laura Resau

The Myth of Lightning: Or How My Morbid Curiosity Led to My Most Recent Novel | Karen White

Writing Techniques The Myth of Lightning: Or, How My “Morbid Curiosity” Led to My Most Recent Novel Karen White

A MotherDaughter Lost and Found in Hell: Writing My Novel From the Mother's Journey, by Jennifer Givhan

Writing Techniques A MotherDaughter Lost and Found in Hell: Writing My Novel From the Mother’s Journey Jennifer Givhan

Write What You Don't Know, by Colleen Patrick

Writing Techniques Write What You Don’t Know Colleen Patrick

3 Reasons to Reveal Real Secrets Or Their Emotional Residue in Your Fiction | J.E. Thomas

Writing Techniques 3 Reasons to Reveal Real Secrets (Or Their Emotional Residue) in Your Fiction J.E. Thomas