CLOSE-UPS
TWENTY-NINE WRITING TOPICS, HUNDREDS OF PERSPECTIVES
Accomplished authors—many of whom are also creative writing professors—offer up their widely varied relationships with, and reflections on, just one topic in each of these Close-Ups.
We encourage you to support, and to learn more from, the generous contributors whose insights strike a chord with you.
- Approaches to Writing
- Becoming a Writer
- Beginnings
- Characterization
- Considering the Reader
- Description & Detail
- Dialogue & Voice
- Early Writing Roots
- Editing
- Endings
- Family Support
- Focusing on Forms
- Literary Fiction
- Making a Living
- Naming & Titles
- Place & Setting
- Point of View
- Reviews & Awards
- Role of Research
- Structure & Pacing
- Theme
- Using Language
- Voice
- Working with Publishers & Agents
- Writer's Block
- Writers & Their Reading
- Writing from Experience
- Writing Life
- Writing Programs & Conferences