Nonfiction writer Timothy Denevi shows us tricks to turn memory into story and to shift our focus from current events to writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Poet Jose Padua uses a sink full of dishes and Kafka’s Metamorphosis to drive out the spleen and produce, produce, produce in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott offers us a moment of peacefulness amidst the chaos with the power of metaphor, his music and television inspirations, a flash fiction prompt, and several deep breaths in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

E. Ethelbert Miller - writer, activist, and The Inner Loop Board Member - calms our worried spirits and helps us reconnect with nature through jazz-inspired haiku, a chance for literary meditation in these weeks of solitude. So grab your favorite pen, turn on some Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, and tune in to this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Invert your gaze to study the stars and explore how a classic antagonist can become your next protagonist with The Inner Loop Board Member Anthony Dobranski in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Generate chemistry and your next 100,000 word novel with The Inner Loop Board Member Leeya Mehta, who reminds us to celebrate each milestone of the long, lonesome journey of writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Join The Inner Loop Board Member Dan Knowlton in our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Dan takes us to a babbling brook to create stillness. Then, he flexes his fiction muscles with dueling perspectives of the same damned tree!

The Inner Loop Outreach Intern Kiera Wolfe takes the helm for this week’s Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times. Kiera embraces quarantine life by leaning into the mundane, and she has her characters strip away the old to create something new.

As 2019 draws to a close and we get ready for the new year, let's talk about writing endings. A story is only as good as its ending. Essayist and creative nonfiction giant, Jo Ann Beard joins us to discuss how to pack an ending with a punch! Plus, Courtney and Rachel rewrite the Christmas classic: T'was The Night Before Christmas.