A BLOG
by Kylan Emms
How to Nail Your Conference Pitch
So you're headed to a writing conference and have a chance to pitch to an agent. Congratulations. I'm going to my first conference this summer, Writer's Digest 2022,...
5 Ways to Manage Your Writing Anxiety
If you’re reading this, you likely don’t need to be told what ‘Writing Anxiety’ is. I’d wager you’ve experienced it firsthand, maybe often enough that it’s become a...
How to make your writing more engaging
Is your writing falling flat? Struggling to breath? Lying deader than a cadaver in an ill-funded med clinic? You need to liven things up a bit. How to do this,...
Why I Hate Blogging
Let’s get this straight: I’m not fond of most—most—blogs, and I absolutely, positively, super-cali-fragil-istic-expiali-dociously detest writing my own. Yet here I am,...
Tolstoy and the Importance of Fiction
Whether fiction has had much tangible effect on the world is up for debate. Despite people having read 1984 and Brave New World, we appear to inch closer to a brave new...
Can Film Be Used to Enhance Writing? A Study of Movement
I’ll start by saying that this is an idea in development. My hunch is that there’s a lot to work with here, because the premise is based on drawing from an art form...
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