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 | 37 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 4 days ago |
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Your Dialog Sounds Like a Hostage Negotiation
Nothing takes me out of a story like when characters open their mouths and talk like they’ve never interacted with another human being before. If that’s true for them, I read on. Romantasy can get wild, folks. But when I’m supposed to belie...
The Opening Scene Problem Every Writer Has (Including Yours Truly)
Oh, where do I begin with this? At the beginning! Only sometimes the beginning can be a tricky bugger to find. It has been for me, and I would find myself writing around an idea, priming it with 500 pages of backstory, or stopping and resta...
Stack the Stakes. The Technique Behind Unputdownable Books
We’ve been talking about unputdownable ideas (read:stakes) for weeks now. Threaten the character’s reputation, check. Put them in mortal danger, check. Make them homeless if it all falls apart, check. But what if you stacked them together a...
Use Stakes of Livelihood in Romance and Your Readers Will Feel Another Level of Tension
Let them LIVE
Capitalism corrupts absolutely, but it makes for a hell of a narrative stake for your protagonists to duke it out with. Despite its prevalence in our daily lives, though, it’s not always the simplest thing to plot, so let’s t...
Why Life & Death Stakes Work in Historical Fiction
The highest stakes of all aren't always the right ones for your story, but when they work, they WORK.
If anyone is going to pull a tarot card to see if she should travel solo around the world with nothing but a laptop, a passport, and a ba...
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Creative writer, book binder, and recovering academic. I also help design creative resets for women in midlife, and I 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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