Poets & Writers

The Time Is Now Writing Prompts and Exercises

Suggested Reading:The Story Cure: A Book Doctor’s Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir (Ten Speed Press, May 2017) by Dinty W. Moore

The director of creative writing at Ohio State University and author of a number of books of literary nonfiction as well as textbooks and craft guides, including most recently (Ten Speed Press, 2015), returns with a handbook for writers who have encountered artistic ailments such

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