Two new books by fiction writers Elizabeth McCracken and Sue Monk Kidd offer different approaches to the craft of writing. McCracken's "A Long Game" is skeptical of cosmic inspiration, focusing ...
Story Prize winner McCracken (The Souvenir Museum) distills decades of personal experience into 280 idiosyncratic reflections on writing. She eschews rigid, step-by-step advice in favor of “vague ...
The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know’ nostrums Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that ...