Ready to tell your best story? Figure out who to channel.
To tell a great story, you need to identify the right voice and then channel her.
To tell a great story, you need to identify the right voice and then channel her.
Personal stories heal us when they settle the events weighing down our hearts and jacking up our nervous systems. But that only happens when we know what they mean.
Whether you’re telling stories through pictures, thinking about how to insert your “I,” or considering the micro form, HippoCamp’s presenters have some great advice for you.
Need a creative boost? Check out these tips from a few of HippoCamp’s 2022 flash presenters.
When we’re stuck it can feel like we’re drowning in our process. Luckily, writing coach Anne Carley has come up with a process that can help your creative life FLOAT.
The most frequently asked question I receive is How do you know if your project is finished? Here are the four most common answers.
To be a great writer and human, we must cultivate compassion for others and ourselves.
If you’re struggling to ditch N.I.C.E. for authentic, here’s what you need to do.
Many people are socialized to see nice as desirable. But if you really knew what this word meant, and how it holds you back, you might think differently about it.
Life is made of the stories we tell ourselves. In this post, we’ll take a look at where those stories come from and what we can do with them.
Stress and anxiety clutter both your writing and your life. Here’s how to deal with both.
The perceived freedom of the spiral structure is what attracts many writers. But as Jane Alison reveals, rule following leads to a successful one.
To create a sustainable, resilient writing life, we need to make time for our writing and the lives we want to live—which can feel like no small feat in a world that focuses on doing, and a publishing industry that tells us we’re behind, not just on our writing, but on our author platforms.
There are two ways we cope with anxiety—worry and avoidance. Your job is to figure out how you’ll reveal this in your manuscript.
Often, change happens in opposition. When we understand the things working in opposition in our stories, we can use them to maintain our story’s tension.
Leading with anxiety comes in two tight and not-so-helpful packages. But here’s the solution.
Jane Alison encourages us to envision our writing not as a tsunami of story, but instead as a series of smaller waves that propel your story arc forward.
A new moon, a new quarter, and a birthday offer you a chance to explore your goals. To choose the best ones, identify your internal yesses and noes.
When building our characters we sometimes hack away at attributes, hoping to unearth something that will engage readers. Instead, do this.
Yesterday morning, I woke to an NPR story that made me wonder if I needed a bunker. I once wrote an essay about my childhood bunker dreams and how I’d used them to cope with both a scary home and world. I thought those days were behind me, but Russia’s attacked on Ukraine has reignited them. I had a completely …
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