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What is 500 Words of Summer?

BY LIZ MATTHEWS Inspired by National Novel Writing month a.k.a. NaNoWriMo (which challenges writers to write 50,000 words during the month of November), and Jami Attenberg’s 1,000 words of summer […]

Under the Marula and the Oak: Writing Between Two Landscapes

BY ELISE CHIDLEY Three miles on a dusty, bone-rattling road to school. When the potholes punched holes in the tires, we would pull over. My mother, with her long red […]

Hot to Go: Metaphors, Music & Motherhood

By Amanda Parrish Morgan April is National Poetry Month, and every year to mark the occasion, my kids’ elementary school does a poetry unit. I wish there were more opportunities […]

How to Get More Words on the Page

by Libby Waterford “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” –Annie Dillard, The Writing Life Writers are notorious procrastinators. We’ll find any number of […]

Five Questions with Blake Schnirring about Blake’s Books!

Our Executive Director, Blake Schnirring, writes a monthly book review for our weekly newsletter, the Writers’ Weekly called Blake’s Books. She discusses story from a reader’s perspective and craft from […]

Celebrating our 20th: An Interview with long-time fiction instructor, Chris Belden

1.) How long have you been teaching with WWW and what was your first workshop? My memory is ominously spotty, but I think I started at WWW somewhere around 2013 […]

From Freewrite to Final Draft

In our workshops, we discuss: freewriting, the craft of writing, revising/editing, and how and where to submit, but usually not at once! Many writers join our community with a few […]

What is (a) Hybrid?

Is it part fiction writer and part poet? Is it part screenwriter and party memoirist? Or is it an AI-generated robot who can write all genres simultaneously? Well maybe the […]

Five Questions with our new Instructor, Cara Wall

Meet our new instructor, Cara Wall. What’s your favorite book and why? I like long, character driven novels I can sink into, like The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth […]

Beware the Information Dump

By Douglas Moser Information dumps happen to the best of us. Hell, sometimes they’re even useful, and warranted. Take your typical TV procedural. The network shows demand a certain format, […]

Writing Lessons from Clown School

By Lauren LoGiudice For the last two summers I traveled to France to stand on a classroom stage and have a Frenchman with a drum tell me how I’m falling […]

How to Give Feedback in Workshop

Hi, this is Jessie McEntee. I’ve worked at WWW as an instructor for almost eight years. I’m sometimes asked for tips on giving great feedback during a workshop. I’d say […]