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Writing Styles: What is Style in Writing?

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Writing style may be a bit hard to point to directly, but something clearly separates Hemingway from Steinbeck, Atwood from LeGuin, or Keats from Wordsworth. Though two given writers might dwell on similar themes, each writer will express a unique writing style, through elements like word choice, narrative structure, and the author’s own voice. So […]

Interview: Barbara Henning’s “Ferne: A Detroit Story”

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Equal parts biography, fiction, and an ode to family and Detroit, Barbara Henning‘s Ferne: a Detroit Story captures the Midwestern magic of mid-century Michigan. Barbara retells the life of her mother, Ferne, through a series of vignettes, news clippings, photographs, and biographical details, fleshing out the contours of Ferne’s life from the 1920s through the 50s. […]

Romantic Love Poems and How to Write Them

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Love poems have tried to capture the essence of love since the dawn of poetry itself. Because love is a highly personal and variable experience, no two love poets will approach the topic in quite the same way. As a result, a corpus of beautiful love poems has emerged throughout our many millennia of writing […]

Flat Character vs. Round Character: Definitions and Examples

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Every fictional person that populates books, movies, and plays falls into one of two categories: flat characters and round characters. Flat and round characters each fill important roles in works of fiction, and while this isn’t the only way to categorize fictional characters, it’s a useful distinction to help guide your own character writing. What […]

10 Types of Nonfiction Books and Genres

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From journalism to instruction manuals, travel guides to historical CNF, nonfiction is one of the broadest and most versatile categories of writing. Indeed, we encounter many types of nonfiction genres in our everyday lives, including newspapers, social media, letters, reports, instruction manuals, and travel guides. Rather than listing the numerous types of nonfiction in its […]

Pun Intended: A Look at Pun Examples in Literature

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What do you call a sandwich made of wordplay? A pun-ini. The English language abounds with pun examples in literature. From Chaucer to Shakespeare, from the Romantics to contemporary poetry, writers have twisted language to explore new (and often hilarious) possibilities with words. We generally consider puns to have humorous intent. However, The pun in […]

How to Start a Story: Examples and Inspiration

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It happens to the best of us: you open a new word document, you’re faced with the many possibilities that a story can take, and then you realize you don’t know how to start a story. Or you do know, but you’re not sure how to start this story. Or you know exactly what this […]

How to Write an Acrostic Poem: Examples and Forms

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If you’re a fan of steganography—the art of concealing messages in text—you might enjoy writing an acrostic poem. From the abecedarian to the golden shovel, acrostic poetry hijacks the poem’s use of line breaks. With this form, you can embed hidden meanings, derive inspiration, or simply have fun with the structure of poetry. Famous acrostic […]

How to Write Dialogue in a Story

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Dialogue writing is essential to the art of storytelling. In real life, we learn about other people through the ideas they communicate and the words they use to share those ideas; in story writing, it’s much the same. Knowing how to write dialogue in a story will transform your characters, your prose style, and your […]
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