Resources for Writers.

By Brad Richard In writing the first lines of a poem, I’m managing multiple aspects of form all at once: the form of the sentence in relationship to the form of the line and the stanza; the formal patterns of rhythm, alliteration, assonance, rhyme; the visual form of...

Allison Alsup (For more on Allison’s Prose Essentials class, starting 10/04, click here.) I’m very, very close--99%-to finishing a story.  At this point, the key elements--pov, premise, conflict and stakes, pacing, structure--are in place, or at least as in place as...