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The Unschool for Writers
Learning about writing—for joy, even in the struggle to attach words-to-page. No content machines here. Fiction and nonfiction, poetry and writing for children and young people. In lieu of an MFA from some writing program.
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Alison Acheson
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Oct 28
Monsters in Our Fiction
Not just for Horror
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Alison Acheson
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Sep 14
Writing Cairn by Cairn
Forget Doctorow’s headlights
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Alison Acheson
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Jun 14
How to Work With Internal and External Character Goals When Writing Fiction
And the pacing that emerges
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Alison Acheson
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Apr 7
Gossip and the Writer
Does it have a place?
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Jan 25
Pets and Animals in Novels and Short Stories
Where are they?
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Alison Acheson
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The Unschool for Writers
Dec 12, 2023
Short Fiction in Your Writer’s Apprenticeship
Still has a role
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Alison Acheson
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The Unschool for Writers
Nov 26, 2023
Character(istic) Flip-sides
Develop your characters with other aspects of a characteristic
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Alison Acheson
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Oct 22, 2023
The Challenge of Naming Fictional Characters
Cus a rose by any other name…
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Alison Acheson
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Sep 16, 2023
The Spiritual in Our Writing
Human hunger for resonant meaning
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