When learning something new, we’re often eager to find someone we trust to give us the lowdown. How can we make the most of a mentorship — real or virtual?

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How to Develop a Mentorship

Everything in the news is currently all COVID-19 all the time. All that anxiety can make it hard to focus on our writing. What can we do to fix it?

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Writing in the Time of Coronanxiety

A joke about authors vs. English teachers has circulated online for years. What can it teach us about how readers interpret our story?

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Do Your Stories Have Deeper Meanings?

Disappointment is an unavoidable aspect of living, but how we react to the disappointment—or the failure to get what we want—can teach us about ourselves.

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What Do You Do with Disappointment?

Should writers read current books in their genre? Some say this is common sense, but others think it’s controversial. Why should we read recent books?

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Do You Read Recently Published Books?

A recent controversy in the writing world might make us wonder: What do the calls for better handling of diversity and inclusion mean for our writing and story ideas?

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What Do the Calls for Diversity Mean for Our Writing?