“Giant Golden Buddha” & 364 More 5 Minute Writing Exercises
Recommended Reading on the Craft of Creative Writing
(Updated Master List)
Recommended Reading on the Creative Process
(Updated Master List)
Recommended Literary Travel Memoirs
(Updated Master List)
“Poetic Techniques to Power Up Your Fiction and Narrative Nonfiction”
The handout from C.M. Mayo’s workshop for the Women Writing the West Virtual Conference, 2020
Reading Tolstoy’s War & Peace: A Novelist’s Notes
What does it mean to “read as a writer”? The author of The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (c’est moi) has a go at War and Peace— starting by cutting it in half.
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