Sitemap - 2024 - Aimee Liu's MFA Lore
Don't Dread Your Elevator Pitch
A Gift of Community, Serendipity, and Reading
What Makes a quiet story... POWERFUL?
What Happens When You Fail to Suspend Disbelief?
Lean Closer, Open Wider, Honor the Music of Everything!
Elizabeth Rosner's 'Third Ear'
What we talk about when we talk about comfort books
What continues to surprise you about being human?
What makes you most grateful about being human?
Writing Toward Post-Traumatic Growth and Liberation
A Year of MFA Lore for Half the Price!
We Need to Rethink Our Moral Narratives
How Do We Write Our Way Through This Nightmare?
We Stand With 700+ of America's Greatest Writers -- All For Kamala Harris
Stop Protecting Your Protagonist!
Is Your Novel or Memoir Confessing Trauma, or Confiding Truth?
Interiority: When Your Editor Says, "I need MORE of YOU."
The 5 R's That Will Keep Your Readers Emotionally Riveted
The Writer's Curse: Conflict Avoidance
Are You Writing Your Family History As Baggage or As Luggage?
“Slice-of-life writing is bullshit.”
Wake Up to The Code-Switching In Your Written World
The Critical Importance of Allied Code Switching in WWII
Will Your Most Popular Post Help You Sell More Books?
Where Does Writing Fit in Your Hierarchy of Needs?
How and Where to Look in the Hall of Mirrors That's Your Memoir
The Key to Writing Intimacy Lies in the Spaces that Make Us Weep
Loop-de-Loop To Write With Artful Irony
Are You Moving Your Readers with Ruthless Sympathy for Your Subject?
Where Writers Turn for Mentorship, Fellowship, and Hard Deadlines
Whose Consciousness Do YOUR Descriptions Reflect?
Get the Most Bang for Your Democratic Dollar$
Master the Art of Creative Generosity
What in the Name of Fiction Is Free Indirect Style?
From MFA Thesis to Book of the Month-- It Truly Can Happen!
Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction Book Prizes
Writers! Befriend Narrative Density!
Mixed Messages Can Deepen Your Fiction's Plot & Dialogue
Authors, United, Cannot Be Defeated
Are You Revising, or Reshuffling?
What's Your Narrative Persona?
My Agent Told Me To Burn My First Novel — And Propelled My Writing Career
Loosen Up That Need for Control! Creative Accidents Are Your Friends
Memories of a “Cloud Mountain” Boyhood: Lushan, China, 1947
Pathos, Bathos, and the Secret Sauce for Addictive Drama
Sometimes It’s Good to Switch Creative Gears
Is Research Rapture Overwhelming Your Creative Process?
July 4 Special: Words of Hope and Connection
Have We Witnessed the President's "Negation of the Negation"?
Should You Fictionalize Your Memoir?
'MFA Lore' is One Year Old and Taking Over!
Confronting the Primal Core of Literature and Life
Turn Your Next Author Interview Into a Game of Tag
How MFA Students Learn to Read Like Writers
To Make Your Writing Memorable...
A Special Offer for Friends of Aimee Liu's Legacy & Lore
Every Tale Is A Tale of Two Stories
Is Your Narrative Thread Taut Enough?
My Grandparents' Marriage Became a National ‘Scandal’ Due to Anti-miscegenation Laws
Decoding Agents' Rejection Notes
Genre Matters (More Than You'd Think)
Blurring the Lines Between Fiction & Memoir
Anniversary Post: Anna Politkovskaya Tried to Warn Us About Putin
Book Business Shorthand For Writers
Crafting the Mini Me in Your Memoir
The 3 Most Important Questions in Memoir
Structuring (and Restructuring) Your Memoir
The Memoir That’s More Than a Memoir
The 3 M's That Forecast a Bestseller