Truing the Narrative: Revising for Symmetry to Make Your Manuscript Sing
I taught a seven-week course on revision in a church basement. I had about a half dozen students, all of whom brought either a chapter from a longer work-in-progress, a…
Dare to Defamiliarize: In Praise of Fluidity
Dissolving boundaries expands my craft arsenal. Openness to new mediums and genres expands my ideas and problem-solving. What if—for the sake of a good stretch and a cracked back, because…
Often There Are Bears
by Randon Billings Noble | From the window to the wall.
Dangerous Light
On a lost effect from the analog film era.
Glazed Ham, April 1996
by Todd Kliman | A gleaming source of guilt.
Fugitive Love
Marguerite Young’s search for utopia
Start with Overripe Bananas
Instead of hitching up the wagon, still a common mode of transportation in rural North Dakota in the 1920s, your grandmother’s father rouses her and her two sisters and tells…
A Good House
We already lived by such thin margins. One bit of bad luck and we’d have nothing. We knew this as a reality. In a normal market we would’ve put off…