Creative nonfiction is a tricky genre in that it typically starts out as processing a lived experience rife with complexity. Many of us come to the genre as keepers of journals, chronic processors, habitual seekers, and adamant sense-makers. We record everything and...
My best friend and I have taken to calling each other “weirdos.” In our world, calling someone a weirdo is the highest strata in the hierarchy of love and understanding. I’ve often heard that the impulse to write feels like a creature clawing at your throat and...
I’ve been thinking about how to begin this little letter for a few weeks now, mostly because, well, who am I to tell you what makes a good story? As far as I’m aware, nobody died and made me President of Fiction, unless the letter informing me of my promotion got lost...
I’m trying to write an essay about why we can’t lose our sense of humor. I’m trying to write an essay about why we can’t lose our sense of humor, but all I can think about are the men being shipped off to a super-prison in a foreign country. All I can think about is...
So many coming-of-age novels are set during high school, when things are obviously turbulent (puberty, dating, getting into college, having to wake up at zero dark thirty and go sit in a building with hundreds of your fellow crazy hormonal teenagers, etc.), but I’ve...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s story is immortalized in the Little House on the Prairie books, as well as a TV series that ran from 1974-1983. Over a series of nine books, published between 1932-1943, the Little House story shows the hardship of frontier living while also...
