JUST WRITE FICTION
A free collection of contemporary fiction & craft essays.
GETTING STARTED
Building a writing practice is strange, unformulaic work. There is no right or wrong way to come to the page—so let’s get started.
WRITING PROMPTS
"Let’s right here and now dispense with the notion of the 'real writer' and while we’re at it, anything else that’s designed to make you feel small. You’re a writer because you write, period. My mantra, as a writer and teacher has always been: 'Whatever gets you to the page.'"—Kathy Fish
READING
"Every piece of art has two lives: the life it lives in our capitalist market place, as capital, as commerce, as goods delivered, and its own interior life, the inward sweep and expanse of its voyages, which may even be beyond the artist who’s made the art. "—Brandon Taylor
OPENING
"An invitation. A doorway.
A promise to—or even contract with—the reader."—Albert Liau
CHARACTER
“Human character is the foreground of all fiction.”—Janet Burroway