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Writing Tips for Retelling Shakespeare: From Atwood’s Hag-Seed to Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius Pat McKee

Will’s Way: Four Timely Craft Tips from the Immortal Bard Karin Abarbanel

Electric, Neon, Salsa-Dancing Energy, or Finding Your Writing Voice Adam Brandner

Writing Multiple Points of View Wendy Heard

Forced Proximity: 50 Reasons for Your Characters to Be Stuck Together Bryn Donovan

5 Goals for Making Your Anthology the Best That It Can Be Marika Lindholm

Lost in Iceland: Searching for a Better Writing Process Nick Petrie

Healthy Writing Habits: All in the Wrist E. L. Tenenbaum

Vintage WD: What Is the Writer’s Social Responsibility?Amy Jones

Rolling the Dice: 5 Ways D&D and “Critical Role” Made Me a Better Storyteller Angela Mitchell

Writing a Novel? Here are Seven Friends You Need Karen Dukess

Nothing Is Fiction Fred Waitzkin

Blurred Lines: Writing Historical Fiction From Fact Melanie Benjamin

It’s Great to Suck at Writing Karen Rinaldi

8 Traits I Wish Employers Knew About Writers E. L. Tenenbaum

Tips for Writing About Controversial Topics in Fiction Bryan Gruley