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What’s a Chapbook & How Do I Make One?
Learn what a chapbook is & how to powerfully share your poetry through a short, unified collection.
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Apr 26, 20215 min read
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3 Ways To Share Your Poems (Besides Publication)
If you’re anything like me, your poetry starts out pretty private. I typically get an idea, do a first draft, and then play around with...
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Apr 20, 20215 min read
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Lessons from Lightfoot: Poetry Inspired By Music
Music is a great place to start if you’re looking for inspiration for a poem.
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Apr 12, 20215 min read
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3 Reasons To Write Poetry (Even If You Aren't A Poet)
No matter what you write or how you feel about it or what your seventh-grade poetry unit was like, writing poetry is valuable for everyone.
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Apr 5, 20216 min read
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Make Your Favorite Authors Your Best Mentors
Maybe you can’t meet one on one with the authors you admire—but you can read their writing to understand how it works.
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Mar 29, 20216 min read
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How To Take Criticism & Use Feedback
Getting feedback is essential to making your work stronger—but not all feedback fits your vision for your story.
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Mar 22, 20215 min read
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The Inkling Feedback Formula
Learn the formula we use to work with clients' writing & how to apply it to writing from your author friends.
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Mar 15, 20215 min read
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Am I Ready To Share My Writing?
Once you have gone through the process of creating your first draft and doing some revision, you’ve got a big decision to make…
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Mar 8, 20216 min read
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A Report from the Flash Fiction Festival
If you’re a flash fiction writer or you’re thinking about trying your hand at it, these are expert tips to check out.
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Mar 1, 20215 min read
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The Faith & Fantasy of Havelah McLat
Havelah McLat is an artist inspired by magic, from the beauty of nature to the miracles happening even in times of great difficulty.
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Feb 22, 20215 min read
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Why We're Called Inkling (Or: When Lewis Met Tolkien)
Maybe we’re limited in terms of how we can meet with each other right now…but ironically, it has never been easier to form connections.
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Feb 15, 20215 min read
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3 Signs Your Fiction Should Really Be Nonfiction
This is perhaps the most important question you can ask when you want to write something inspired by your own life...
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Feb 8, 20216 min read
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I’d Rather Be Revising. Here’s Why.
Radical revision does not make you a failure or less of a writer. It’s the mark of a professional.
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Feb 1, 20217 min read
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A Tale of Two Poets: Literary Lessons from Inaugurations
It is my hope that as people contemplate Gorman’s writing, they will think more deeply about the issues at the heart of her poems.
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Jan 25, 20215 min read
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Exploring The Sharpness Of Poetry With Logan Roberts
Poet Logan Roberts values writing mentorship in his work.
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Jan 18, 20215 min read
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Flashbulb: Creating Your Account of a Historical Event
Having an account of these events as part of your personal literature will someday be invaluable, even if no one else ever sees it.
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Jan 11, 20217 min read
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How Finding A Writing Mentor Gives You "Soul"
It’s possible for one good mentor to succeed where others have failed and change the entire course of a person’s creative life.
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Jan 4, 20217 min read
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4 Writing Resolutions You Can Make For 2021 (And How To Get Started)
What do you want to accomplish with your writing in 2021?
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Dec 28, 20206 min read
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How To Make Your Writing A Gift To Remember
The more that you think about your project as being "for" a reader, the more you'll be able to craft it to meet that reader's needs.
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Dec 19, 20206 min read
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A Walk In The Woods With Taylor Swift & Tolkien
Good fiction fuses life experience with the art we consume, eventually taking the form of powerful narratives.
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Dec 14, 20206 min read
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