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Mother's Day Advice

With the holidays upon us, it’s time to start thinking about what your favorite writer might like as a gift. To me, writers are some of...

Reason. The benefits of attending an MFA program can be summed up in one word: time. A program, especially a fully-funded one, gives you the

In my fiction writing class at Stanford, my lecturer assigned us to read writer Ron Carlson’s Ron Carlson Writes a Story. It’s a...

The book and its industry aren’t disappearing, but they are changing. And they are changing in favor of the author.

In my first blog post for Coach Cutler, I talked about the arduous experience of brainstorming. According to the general writing process,...

The other day I spent a few hours cleaning out the piles of papers in my desk. There were failed algebra tests, college fair flyers,...

You’ll hear it said that there is no one way to write a novel because everyone’s writing process is different. This is mostly true, but ther

The summer I turned 16 years old, there was only one thing I wanted for my birthday. Imagine the glistening metal body, the oiled wheels,...

You’ll never be a great writer if you don’t make time for your writing. But forget about even being a great writer—you’ll never finish a wri