If you could tell when people were lying, how would that change your life? What would improve? What would be complicated?
For today's prompt, your main character is a human lie detector.
Post your response (500 words or fewer) in the comments below.
Write a short story of 650 words or fewer based on the photo prompt. You can be poignant, funny, witty, etc.; it is, after all, your story.
Debut authors: How they did it, what they learned, and why you can do it, too.
In this interview, author Rosa Kwon Easton discusses the surprises she faced in tackling fiction for the first time with her new historical novel, White Mulberry.
Every Wednesday, Robert Lee Brewer shares a prompt and an example poem to get things started for poets. This week, write an undiscovered poem.
Author Anita Felicelli explains her process for portraying time and memory in stories, including examples from other authors.
Every writer needs a little inspiration once in a while. For today's prompt, start your story with someone listening in on someone else's conversation.
In this interview, bestselling author Pip Drysdale discusses how her own experience with writer’s block helped inspire her new thriller novel, The Close-Up.
Author Zoje Stage shares her experience of finding publication for a passion project that many loved but didn't know how to market—and how the results blew her away.
In this week’s roundup from Script magazine, Alison Schapker talks about the development and adaptation process, character development, and more.
