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Creative Writing Reflections, Stories about Stories, and Feel-Good Pieces
The Shunn Manuscript Format, developed by a gentleman named William Shunn, was a method that first got shared with me by a very helpful and responsive literary magazine editor. Learning about it was an eye-opening discovery, as was the fact that many literary magazines and similar publications often see this style as something of aContinue reading “The Shunn Manuscript Formatting Method”
By Joyce Jacobo [Author’s Note: I wrote this short piece a while back for a publisher called BQB Publishing: https://bqbpublishing.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/stories-are-everywhere-finding-the-inspiration-to-write/, but I thought it might be nice to share it here as well. Hope you like it!] Discovering the bright spark of literary inspiration can pose an overwhelming challenge at times, especially when you don’tContinue reading “Stories are Everywhere (Some Creative Advice)”
The creative writing workshop courses I took throughout grad school offered many valuable lessons and techniques to use as a writer, some of which encouraged playing around with words to generate new ideas. Freewriting, or the act of writing whatever comes to mind for a set amount of time, was one such game–but there wereContinue reading “Some Fun Wordplay and Literary Games”
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