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Write What You Don't Know: Crossing Boundaries in Fiction, by Joseph Moldover

Writing Techniques Write What You Don’t Know: Crossing Boundaries in Fiction Joseph Moldover

Writing About Places When You Don't Live There, by Sheila Yasmin Marikar

Writing Techniques Writing About Places When You Don’t Live There Sheila Yasmin Marikar

4 Things I Do Before I Write the First Word of a Novel, by Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Writing Techniques 4 Things I Do Before I Write the First Word of a Novel Marybeth Mayhew Whalen

Magic Between the Lines: Magical Realism in Storytelling, by Garrett Curbow

Writing Techniques Magic Between the Lines: Magical Realism in Storytelling Garrett Curbow

Writing Books in the Age of AI, by Laura Brooke Robson

Writing Techniques Writing Books in the Age of AI Laura Brooke Robson

Writing Description in Fiction, by Mark Lawrence

Writing Techniques Writing Description in Fiction Mark Lawrence

Writing a Debut Novel: Expectation vs. Reality, by Georgia McVeigh

Writing Techniques Writing a Debut Novel—Expectation Vs. Reality Georgia McVeigh

Just Because It's Fiction Doesn't Mean It Isn't True: Research Interviews for Fiction Writers, by Sally Kilpatrick

Writing Techniques Just Because It’s Fiction Doesn’t Mean It Isn’t True: Research Interviews for Fiction Writers Sally Kilpatrick

Why Doctors Write Fiction: Medicine Runs on Stories and Sometimes Only a Story Can Tell the Truth, by Shantanu Rai

Writing Techniques Why Doctors Write Fiction: Medicine Runs on Stories—and Sometimes Only a Story Can Tell the Truth Shantanu Rai

5 Elements for Writing Novels Set Across Multiple Centuries, by Louise Fein

Writing Techniques 5 Elements for Writing Novels Set Across Multiple Centuries Louise Fein

Why I Chose to Write an Autobiographical Novel Instead of a Memoir, by Shivani Malik

Writing Techniques Why I Chose to Write an Autobiographical Novel Instead of a Memoir Shivani Malik

Writing Techniques Collaborating With Your Reader Peter Mountford

Can I Get a Noun Please? (Or, How Improv Made Me a Better Writer), by Michelle Maryk

Writing Techniques Can I Get a Noun, Please? (Or, How Improv Made Me a Better Writer)Michelle Maryk

Who Among You With a Successful Novel Series Is up for the Challenge of Creating a New One, by Jeffrey Siger

Writing Techniques Who Among You With a Successful Novel Series Is up for the Challenge of Creating a New One?Jeffrey Siger

Writing in Multiple Age Groups and Genres, by Alechia Dow

Writing Techniques Writing in Multiple Age Groups and Genres Alechia Dow

Fragmented Testimony as Narrative Structure, by Sarah Bruni

Writing Techniques Fragmented Testimony as Narrative Structure Sarah Bruni