The Rogue MFA
Kelly Chastain, Bri CastelliniGet the creative writing lessons we taught at university without going six figures in debt.
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| Issues | 30 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 6 days ago |
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Plot is What Happens. Stakes Are Why You Care. Integrate Them and Your Readers Will Be Hooked.
Back in the ivory tower days, I ran workshops as part of my creative writing classes. As one does. Not only is workshop feedback massively helpful, but it also showed me where my students had knowledge gaps. Where they instinctually knew so...
How to Use Pinterest For World Building Before You Write a Single Word
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Last week, Kelly walked you through using Pinterest as a tool for designing and keeping track of characters. This week, I’m doing the same, but for world-building. Need we say more?
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Why I Make a Pinterest Board for Every Character I Write
If you don’t remember the Binders full of Women bullshit from the 2012 election, don’t tell me. I’ve been feeling like an antique lately so just nod and smile, k? K.
I tend to write sprawling and complicated historical fiction with both r...
How Filmmaking Made Me a Better Descriptive Writer
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When I was in college, the most defining feedback on my work came from my advisor Kathlene, who told me:
You have really funny, distinct characters… but it’s like they’re talking in a dark room
Which was fair. I hated, and...
The Oldest Visual Storytelling Tool Is Also the Best One. Make a Map.
If you write any genre of historical fiction, and that can include romance, fantasy, etc… you already know the power of a great map. Maps aren’t the only visual elements that you can add to your story, but they make it…
- Way more visu...
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Creative writer and recovering academic. I design creative sabbaticals for women in midlife. I also teach creative writing for historical fiction and romance writers without the university price tag.
Bi/Ace/She/Her. Writer, filmmaker, romance author, human bulldozer. By day I help filmmakers crowdfund their passion projects, by night and on the weekends I write and direct short films and web series, and I write and read romance novels.
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