The Writer's Workout

I just came back from the Columbia Publishing Course, a six week intensive program meant to prepare students for both book and...

This course honors the fortieth anniversary of one of the most influential (and our favorite) pro-reading shows on tv, Reading Rainbow,...

For my final semester of college, I decided to complete an honors project in fiction. It was the most intensive writing project I’ve ever...

Every industry has its own language and publishing is no exception. Do you know what these terms really mean? Let’s find out… Beta Reader...

Is a prologue the right move for your story? Let’s figure that out together! In this Back to Basics course, we’ll talk about prologues:...

Time travel and time manipulation is a very common conflict in science fiction, fantasy, and even more action-based genres of fiction....

For this Back to Basics mini-course, we’re talking about personification. Each Back to Basics course includes a challenge at the end to...