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The Center blog is teeming with tips and inspiration for starting and maintaining your writing practice.

For Pride Month, Shawna Ayoub reflects on what she's learned from reviewing writing by queer and BIPOC authors.
Six questions about the book Center writer Lori Mulligan proofed, published, and platformed in six weeks.
What does summer taste like? Smell like? Look, sound, feel like?

Teneice Durrant, creator of Tarot with Ten, will use various tarot and oracle decks to provide monthly readings for writers with exercises on using imagery and intuition as prompts. May's prompt is about developing an authority figure or leader.

 

Using tarot’s The Emperor to develop an authority figure

Watch and listen to Teneice's tarot reading for writers or read the transcript of the reading below.

 

What had taken my mother over?  What had moved her to reach for me?
Charlie Jane Anders is asking big questions in both YA and adult fiction.
Write about something you were afraid of until you realized its benefits to you and/or the world.
April’s prompt is about using tarot’s The Empress to progress a narrative through asking for help and being open to receiving it.
The first time I went to the house in the woods myself, I stood on the porch and watched a tree fall. I must have turned my head just in time...
Yours for the Taking follows Ava’s journey as the world faces crisis climate change.