Enter the Raven Short Story Contest
Why enter your latest short story in the Raven Short Story Contest? Enter the Raven With a top prize of $300, entries limited to 200, […]
Writers’ Strengths, Writers’ Targets
A Writer’s Strengths Regarding writers’ strengths, It’s helpful to know what work our inner editors can manage on their own, and what aspect of a […]
Rest, Change, Revive … Seasonally
One of our greatest statesmen has said that a change of work is the best rest. So it is. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The […]
Outlining, a Fractal Approach
Outlining is fractal, like a rocky coastline. The jagged water’s edge looks similar—not identical, just very like—if seen from space, an airplane, a tower, a rooftop, […]
Designing a Great Life Plan
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not […]
In the Mood to Write, Simply Because I Have Coffee
Self-discipline rarely goes amiss, but what if a writer examines a great writing mood and figures out how to encourage it. This way we can plan […]
Nicholas Christian, ‘A Wassail in Ink’
We are delighted to publish Nicholas Christian’s poem ‘A Wassail in Ink’ in Issue 15 of Pulp Literature. We are even more delighted that he […]
The Next Step in a Writing Project
For those of us attempting to fit our full-time writing careers into our full-time lives, one great two-step strategy may help. Ask What one important […]
Monsters in the Classroom with Adam Golub
Congratulations to Adam Golub on the release of Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us (McFarland 2017). Adam, with Heather Richardson Hayton, […]
The Practicalities of Thinking Big
Thinking Big: Career Scope A friend of mine, a wise and lovely woman, filled to the gills with integrity, and inspiring to all, says this […]