The Wednesday interview

Reading time: About 2 minutes The motto Michelle Yang used when writing her memoir was: “It’s not about what happened to you; it’s about how you survived.”  Michelle Yang is an advocate whose writings on Asian American identity, body image, and mental health have been published in NBC News, CNN, […]

Reading time: About 2 minutes Erin Zimmerman says you don’t need to be inspired or wait for inspiration to come to you in order to write. Instead, you just need to put in the work to shape it into something better…. Erin Zimmerman is an evolutionary biologist turned science writer

Reading time: About 2 minutes Nadia Froese says that writer has a different writing process, and part of developing your craft is getting to know yours…. Nadia Friese is the author of the chapbook Something Spectacular, which was published by 845 Press in 2021. Her poetry and fiction have previously

Reading time: About 2 minutes Melissa Sevigny says no one — apart from the writer — should be able to dictate how or when anyone can write…. Melissa L. Sevigny is a science writer and poet, living in Flagstaff, Arizona. She is author of Brave the Wild River, winner of

Reading time: About two minutes Thomas Harrison says that the first draft of any piece of writing is often terrible. “But it’s always easier to edit, and to polish a found diamond in the rough,” he adds. Thomas Harrison is a teacher, lawyer and creative multi-disciplinary artist who lives on

Reading time: About 2 minutes Mackenzie Thornton says that parts of writing are fun, but other parts of it are like banging your head against a wall… Mackenzie Thornton is an author, editor, and book reviewer. A graduate of the Humber College Book Publishing program, she has loved books since

Reading time: About 2 minutes Becky Blake says that new writers are often too hard on their early drafts. They haven’t yet learned to trust the process of release and revision…. Becky Blake is a creative writing instructor at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Her essays and

Reading time: About 2 minutes Eufemia Fantetti suggests that writers make friends with their writing process — in order to use more energy rather than burn it up with frustration… The short fiction, A Recipe for Disaster & Other Unlikely Tales of Love, by Eufemia Fantetti, was runner-up for the

Reading time: About 2 minutes Fred Estes follows a terrific motto from a design thinking mentor: “You keep revising until you run out of time or money….” Fred Estes taught science for two decades near his home in San Francisco. He wrote Design Thinking: A Guide to Innovation, and Teen Innovators:

Reading time: About 2 minutes Kelly S Thompson believes that some writing problems are ‘Later You’ problems. This means that, when you’re writing, your only job is to write. Worrying about tone and character and plot and reviews are all concerns you can fret over later… Kelly S. Thompson is