Word for Words Blog for Writers

 A Less Fabulous Infinity by Charles Rafferty  In keeping with our conversations on creativity, our   guest this week is poet Charles ...

In keeping with the Words for Words focus of conversations on creativity, we have guest posts from Charles Rafferty, a gifted poet whose el...

This is the next installment in the series Beauty in the Breakdown, on how to edit various aspects of a story. We've been talking about ...

This is the second installment in the series Beauty in the Breakdown, on how to edit various aspects of a story. We started with description...

When autumn arrives, I go into academic mode. Blame all those years of school when fall not only meant new things to wear, but new things to...

L B Gschwandtner is an artist, writer, magazine editor, businessperson, wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend. I first met Laura at the ...

Author, artist, writer and teacher Peter Selgin, Winner of the 2007 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and author of 179 Ways to...

For the past several posts, we've looked at the most important question a writer can ask, "why." We've seen how it can bre...