[su_note](Editor’s Note: You can find even more posts about Dorothy Parker’s story, You Were Perfectly Fine, by checking out the Dorothy...

Darlene Cah is a graduate of the Queens MFA program and an online writerly friend, and her story, The Jazz in her Soul is featured on...

Here is a brief discussion of the writing process (mine, specifically) for this installment of The Three Minute Writer. Thanks for...

Sometimes, even a traditional writing prompt isn’t enough to get us through that writer’s block, so I’ve decided to start featuring some...

Blogging about social media isn’t a regularly scheduled part of “Stories I Read, Stories I Tell” but I’ve had a few readers looking for...

Twelve Stories is an online literary journal that comes out every time the editors agree on twelve stories, unanimously. Sometimes that...

This Unblocker is a writing prompt you’ll come across in any number of books and workshops, in one form or another. You can use this one...

I have an affinity for geographically-centered fiction. What I mean is, I think the “place” of the writer and the story he writes are...

The week is winding down, and here we are again, with another Unblocker to help you break out of a writing slump. This unblocker is all...

Today’s fiction feature is the short story, Where Everyone is a Star, by Ashley Farmer, featured in the current online issue of The...

Today’s Unblocker isn’t necessarily related to any writing project you are currently working on. Instead, this is designed more to be a...

Well, here is the first of a new video blog (vBlog) feature here on the Stories I Read, Stories I Tell blog. In episode #1, I take a...

I really don’t want another social media distraction, but it turns out, I might need one. It really hit home for me this weekend, when...

Belinda Nicoll is a Columbus, Ohio-based (with a globe-trotting background) writer & creativity coach, and she is a lovely, kind, and...

Tuesday this week I presented part one of an adaptation of an exercise in “What if?” by Bernays and Painter. You can get your own copy...

There is some fine fiction (and poetry and non-fiction) at storySouth, and this week I’m highlighting the headliner short fiction story...

Today and Thursday this week, I’m going to be giving you an adaptation of an exercise in “What if?” by Bernays and Painter. You can get...

I absolutely LOVE it when one of my writer friends has a story published, and I am so happy to be sharing one with you today. Kelly...

Today’s exercise to tickle your creative center and get the words flowing is inspired by an exercise Ursula K. Le Guin wrote about in her...

There are a number of really good places to find short fiction online, and Fifty-Two Stories is one of them. You should definitely...