Coffee

PRACTICE Write about coffee. Write for fifteen minutes. When you're finished, post your practice in the comments section. And if you post, make sure to comment on a few posts by other Practitioners. Here's my practice: I look down into her cup of black coffee and am...

Your Favorite Love Story

Submissions for Show Off: The Love Story Edition are now closed. “Submitting is like sitting naked in the subway,” said Kate after last month's contest. Casey said, ” I've never submitted anything. And after I hit submit, I wanted to hide under my...

How to Draw Your Characters Out

Submissions for our Show Off Writing Contest: Love Story Edition will close at midnight EST tonight. Make sure you have your pieces in before then. Thank you so much for participating. Every month I'm overwhelmed at the response. Pardon the terrible pun in the title,...

Why Writers Should Forget About Fame

Michael Cunningham says, “I’m so much happier thinking of myself less as some kind of aspiring great artist and more as one of the people who carved the gargoyles in the face of the cathedral—hidden away.” In 1998, Michael Cunningham wrote a novel called...