Resources for Writers.

In this week’s author interview, NOWW Executive Director Jessica Kinnison interviews NOWW Creative Director and Author Allison Alsup about her new novel Foreign Seed and her upcoming class. Her four-week class “The First Forty Pages: Building Your Novel” takes place...

By Allison Alsup Published May 26, 2023 Scenes are the basic measuring unit of fiction. Immersive and dynamic, they embody unfolding action or "show". If you can write one well-developed scene, chances are you can write a full story, novel chapter or even full-length...

Published January 15, 2025 Local author Elisa Speranza talks with visiting instructor Kate Feiffer about her genre-bending new novel Morning Pages and her upcoming class “Fictionalizing Your Life.” [“Some characters and events are very much based on people in my...

Published December 30, 2024 NOWW Creative Director Allison Alsup talks with historical fiction author and former marketing executive, Elisa Speranza, about how to get your book into the hands of readers. Introverts, this one is also for you! [Writers “can (and should)...

Published December 2024 In this week’s author interview, NOWW Creative Director Allison Alsup interviews author Dylan H. Jones about how he gets his ideas for his popular crime and thriller novels, the choices we all must make as writers, setting as a character, and...

Published November 14, 2024 In this week’s author interview, NOWW Creative Director Allison Alsup interviews Author Chin-Sun Lee about the publication of her first novel, her current project, and the often lonely, sometimes ecstatic journey of completing a novel and...

Posted October 19, 2025 In this week’s author interview, NOWW Executive Director Jessica Kinnison interviews Author Adrian Van Young about his current writing projects and process and how as Adrian puts it: “without high stakes, there’s no suspense.” His class “On the...

Published September 25, 2024 In this week’s author interview, NOWW Creative Director Allison Alsup and Author T Clark discuss “the playground phase” of starting a new project and T’s take on the importance of craft fundamentals. Their class “Building the Short Story”...

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...