Screenshot from the TV show Yellowjackets Do you remember it? When you changed? Or, stranger still, when you were between one thing and another? I do. When my breasts started to show beneath my T-shirt—buds, they called them, but it never felt like a flowering. In the dictionary under buds , it explains: in certain […]
Your story “War Dogs” takes place in an animal-care facility at an airport. When did you come up with this as the setting for a piece of fiction? This is hardly an original thought—and there are tons of writers who have been exploring this for a long time—but as I was working on my last […]
Riley Keough with her mother Lisa Marie Presley in 2017. (AP) Elvis’s only daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, never wanted to write a memoir. She thought her life wasn’t interesting enough. But then something changed. She asked her eldest daughter, actor Riley Keough, to help tell her story. It ranged from a childhood spent at Graceland […]
Relearning My Love For Creative Writing After Serious Burn Out 1 This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at USF chapter. I first fell in love with the art of writing through reading. As a child, I was an avid reader, always eager for trips to the bookstore, the thrift […]
Stephen King’s mastery over horror is indisputable. The author’s horror-focused stories have a way of crawling into our psyches and staying there, appealing to both morbid curiosities and integral truths about the human condition. There is a reason why King’s works are molded into cinematic adaptations time and again , even when some stories inherently […]
I have been thinking about memory these days, because I have been gathering contributions for Class Notes from my classmates at the Brearley School. Seven contributions have come in, either instantly or, after many weeks, reluctantly. They are long or short, emotional or matter-of-fact, describing adventures abroad or hard work at home, and now my […]
Illustration by Molly Fairhurst/Narratively archive You’ve done what feels like the hardest part of writing: You’ve sat down to actually do the thing, gotten through those first sticky words and finally your writing is flowing. Then your phone buzzes, the leaf blower next door starts up, you remember you need to make that doctor’s appointment. […]
Credit…Anna Parini , by Sarah LaBrie In March 2017, Sarah LaBrie, a TV writer living in Los Angeles, received a phone call from her grandmother, who unspooled an alarming thread of calamities suggesting that LaBrie’s mother was suffering from severe mental illness. She had been found parked on the side of the freeway in Houston, […]
The debut author explores her experience growing up with ADHD, and how it informed her novel Hannah Edwards: Secrets of Riverway. “The point is ADD makes children restless and easily distracted.” This line is not from a psychological resource or a parenting advice website. It was said by Principal Skinner in a Simpsons episode where […]
Photo by Mikaela Wiedenhoff on Unsplash Email, we can probably all agree, is generally a bummer. At the moment, my inbox is a jumble of stressful news stories and tasks I’m behind on jammed alongside emails from friends I really do want to answer and sales on things I don’t need but will definitely spend […]
