Writing Tip: Make Your Own MFA in Writing

Make your own MFA in Writing through self study, workshops, online classes, and friends.

Do I Need to Go to a Graduate (MFA) Program to be a Writer? is a Masters of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing Right for Me?

A short piece on why a MFA program is or isn’t the best choice to become a writer. Also discusses whether a MFA degree is needed to be successful in writing. Written by an author who has experience in the writing world, both poetry and fiction.

How to Use Description in The Short Story

This article is about writing description in the flash fiction story, but the tips apply to fiction of any length.

How to Create Great Flash Fiction Characters

There are only three kinds of characters in flash fiction. Do you want to know who they are?

How to Write Great Flash Fiction

The writing of flash fiction is a journey for the reader and you the writer, too. Here are some writing tips to make the journey more exciting for both of you.

Writing Short Stories That Come Alive

Emotions are fine but actions are better. The writer of fiction must make the reader "see" what is going on because seeing is believing. What can writers learn from Neal Young and Crazy Horse?

Radical Theory About How to Learn to Write Well and Become a Successful Writer

There’s no shortage of recommendations about how to become a successful writer, but following these suggestions could actually hinder your efforts to achieve your writing dreams. To learn how to write well, you must primarily focus on one thing. Read on to learn what that is.

Education: Teaching Writers Writing

Can writers be taught to write?

Flash Fiction Means Never Saying You’re Sorry

Don’t apologize for the length of your story.

Putting Poetry on a Diet

A bitingly humorous critique of the decline of quality in published poetry.

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