How to Write When You Feel Like You Can't

How to Write When You Feel Like You Can't

Is there a jackhammer obliterating your concentration? Describe it. Have you got the plague? Conjure your feverish state.

4 Steps to Your Spring Writing Reboot

4 Steps to Your Spring Writing Reboot

Sometimes we’re so focused on producing those great works of art (or the weather is so foul) that we neglect the inspiration side of things. If your muse is uncooperative, she might just need a change of scene.

5 Tips for Giving Better Critique

5 Tips for Giving Better Critique

Receiving insightful feedback is essential, but it’s also important that we hone this skill ourselves.

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 4 & 5

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 4 & 5

As writers, we work with this elasticity of time — honoring the eternal nature of it but also how significant moments leave impressions. 

Six Research-Based Techniques to Boost Your Creativity Right Now

Six Research-Based Techniques to Boost Your Creativity Right Now

Researchers found that activities we’d ordinarily think of as lazing about actually help stimulate inventive thoughts.

Meet Our New Poetry Editor, Ellie Francis Douglass

Meet Our New Poetry Editor, Ellie Francis Douglass

With poetry submissions opening Feb. 1, our new poetry editor reveals how she knows a poem belongs in Carve and the most common mistake poets make.

Interview with our New Managing Editor, Anna Zumbahlen

Interview with our New Managing Editor, Anna Zumbahlen

Anna Zumbahlen has been promoted to Managing Editor from the Carve reading committee.

Review: Get a Grip by Kathy Flann

Review: Get a Grip by Kathy Flann

The rawest emotional nerves are the ones oriented towards our family members, and Get a Grip crackles with the complications and conflicts of blood

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 2 & 3

Serial - Season 2, Episodes 2 & 3

Should Bergdahl be or not be? We will keep tuning in to find out.

How to Write Killer Endings

How to Write Killer Endings

The ending of a story should feel unexpectedly inevitable.

Serial – Season 2, Episode 1: DUSTWUN

Serial – Season 2, Episode 1: DUSTWUN

So far, this investigation is about big events ... Yet, Koenig frames the story to us in human, relatable ways. 

The Serial Podcast and Creative Writing

The Serial Podcast and Creative Writing

I hope to share with you three pearls of wisdom from each episode about what makes Koening such a stellar storyteller.

Five (±New Year's) Resolutions for Writers

Five (±New Year's) Resolutions for Writers

Whether you read this in January or July, the following resolutions for writers are a combination of things I strive for personally and also encourage others to do.

Five Ways to Stand Out in the Slush Pile (Without Gimmicks)

Five Ways to Stand Out in the Slush Pile (Without Gimmicks)

Don't let your story be just another seashell left behind at the beach.

The Perks and Pitfalls of Writing in First Person

The Perks and Pitfalls of Writing in First Person

What do we gain and what are we giving up when using that ever-enticing "I" pronoun.

3 Rules to Writing Commanding Sex Scenes

3 Rules to Writing Commanding Sex Scenes

We all know how it's done. We don’t need you to tell us that he put his member in her girl-cave and did some thrusting.

Too Much To Read? Here Are 5 Steps to Conquer Your Never-Ending Reading List

Too Much To Read? Here Are 5 Steps to Conquer Your Never-Ending Reading List

It's easy to get your reading list under control, if you follow these 5 simple steps.

Writers Need Community (Here's How to Get Some)

Writers Need Community (Here's How to Get Some)

Despite the limitations to living in a less-than literary locale, I’ve found some practical ways to cobble together a writing community on my own.

You Think Writing Is Not A Job? Think again.

You Think Writing Is Not A Job? Think again.

I want to say – boldly and with absolutely no hesitation – that writing is so a job and a necessary one at that.

You, Dear Writer, Are Not the Narrator

You, Dear Writer, Are Not the Narrator

Although you, the writer, are indeed doing the writing, your narrator is the one telling the story. And that narrator is not you.

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