Popular genre fiction runs on a recognizable emotional engine. We come to these books for a specific feeling. Tension, wonder, desire, fear, catharsis, justice, escape.
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2026 Get Started Right Writing Challenge: Day 2
Get your writing started right in 2026 with the Get Started Right Writing Challenge. The second day involves actually writing.
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I dreamt that I was in a forest fire. I was safe because I was a ghost, but no one else was. The trees blazed all around me, and I felt the heat of their passing. Animals fled past me, wide-eyed and panicked, predator and prey united in terror. Firefighters sprayed water that turned to steam. Flames jumped from crown to crown. The wind was hot and stank of ash and endings.
I walked unhurt but not unmarked to the edge of a sullen lake whose entire surface had gone black with ash. I watched its lazy undulations for a while, like a pool of oil disturbed by unseen forces.
The Anti-Perfectionist Rule That Helped Me Draft a Novel in 5 Weeks
Stop letting your inner critic and squiggly lines break your writing rhythm Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative »
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Getting bigger than I expected
For the last three weeks, I've been writing almost every day for at least an hour. I've had some ideas and needed to go back and re-work some older bits, and I'm really happy with the direction things have taken. [...]
Managing Writer’s Block: How to Break Through With Positive Self-Talk and Affirmations
Deanna Martinez-Bey breaks down what frequently causes writer's block and offers ways to break through to a more creative practice.
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