Is Freelance Editing a Good Career for You?
By C. S. Lakin, Guest Contributor
Freelance editing, to me, is the perfect career choice for a writer. It allows for creativity and much freedom. Yet it has its challenges and drawbacks...
How One Smart Scene Can Pull the Weight of Many
By Rachel Garner, Staff Writer
For six years, I couldn’t figure out how to write an opening scene for my book. It’s a running joke among my friends that I’m an obsessive editor—I’ve spent nearly ten years now on the book itself—but my struggles with chapter 1 were especially ridiculous.
The Hidden Connection between Fiction and Academic Writing
By Addison Lucchi, Guest Contributor
Many people will say that academic writing is completely different from fiction writing, but there are definite similarities between the two modes of writing, and it’s precisely in these areas of overlap that the One Year Adventure Novel curriculum can be helpful.
Fair Winds & Following Seas – A Summer Workshop Reflection
By Daniel Schwabauer
The OYAN Summer Workshop always changes me. And every year I struggle for the words to explain how and why.
How Writing is Like Throwing Pottery
By Jared Schmitz, Guest Contributor
How do you view the early drafts of your writing projects? Do you view them as blocks of stone requiring smoothing and carving into shape, but essentially complete? Or do you view them more as lumps of clay, likely needing to be fully reshaped more than once?