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Creative Nonfiction

How To Write a Book About Your Life: 8 Steps to Writing Your Memoir

By Margo Steines | October 17, 2025 | 0
how to write a book about your life

Writing a book about your life is an intense experience. As you learn how to write your life story, you’ll also be confronting uncomfortable truths about yourself, possibly learning new…

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Memoir Vs Autobiography Vs Biography: The Craft of Nonfiction Books

By Sean Glatch | October 10, 2025 | 2
Memoir Vs Autobiography Vs Biography

What is the difference between a memoir vs autobiography vs biography? These three categories of nonfiction describe different approaches to telling your life’s story. But while these books all sit…

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Interview: Barbara Henning on “Girlfriend” and the Craft of Poetic Memoir

By Sean Glatch | September 13, 2025 | 2
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[Photo: Barbara Henning (right) with poet Maureen Owen (left)] Our selves are collages of the people that impact us; we are products of every person we have met. To put…

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What Else? – How Research Makes Meaning

By Tamara Dean | July 20, 2025 | 4
how research makes meaning

Since all the essays in my new collection, Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless, incorporate facts I learned from asking experts, reading scholarly works, or rooting around in…

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Truth in Possibility: Writing Speculative Nonfiction

By Sean Glatch | July 11, 2025 | 1
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Speculative nonfiction is an emerging genre of literature that empowers writers to incorporate imagination, wondering, and non-shared realities into works of creative nonfiction. By writing into the realm of possibility,…

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Sound Devices in Poetry and Literature

By Sean Glatch | May 26, 2025 | 4
sound devices in poetry and literature

Although literature exists on the page, poetry and prose are both sonic artforms, each enhanced by the use of sound devices. Indeed, poems and stories used to be developed as…

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Literary Motifs: What is a Motif in Literature?

By Sean Glatch | April 24, 2025 | 1
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When a work of literature employs an image or idea in repetition, that image or idea might be a motif. Literary motifs describe noteworthy repetitions whose presence in the work…

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You Finished Your First Draft—Now What? A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Novel’s Next Chapter

By Elle | Community Manager | February 3, 2025 | 5
you've finished your first draft—now what?

Congratulations! You’ve crossed the finish line of your first draft—an accomplishment many dream of, but few achieve. I hope you are beaming with pride, but after the adrenaline fades, you…

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The Importance of Word Choice in Writing

By Sean Glatch | January 20, 2025 | 7
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All strong writers have something in common: they understand the value of word choice in writing. Strong word choice uses vocabulary and language to maximum effect, creating clear moods and…

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Spiritual Journaling: How to Keep a Spiritual Journal, and 46 Spiritual Journal Prompts

By Frederick Meyer | October 22, 2024 | 4
Spiritual journaling

If you have an active spiritual practice, I strongly recommend keeping a spiritual journal. I’ve been spiritually journaling regularly for the past three years, and my personal spiritual growth over…

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