This American Life producer and founder of Dog Start Tutoring, Hillary Frank will teach college aspirants how to use the tricks of the journalism trade to write application essays that will get them in. Students will work on choosing unique, compelling essay topics and learn to craft catchy openings, sure to grab the eyes of admission officers everywhere. Learn more here!
In the coming days, keep an eye on the Figment contest blog for the details on this exciting opportunity for one writer to have his or her story published in Defy the Dark (and to win some tantalizing cash prizes!)
Think back to the person you always wanted to kiss, but never did. Now imagine a world where that dream-kiss took place, and write about what happened next.
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Author Mike Mullin shares how rigorous research on supervolcanoes fueled the writing of his YA novel Ashfall.
I started researching my debut novel, Ashfall, before I knew I was going to write it.
I was wandering through Central Library in downtown Indianapolis when I spotted Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything. Dozens of novel ideas lurk within that book's pages, but the one that stuck with me was the idea of a supervolcano eruption at Yellowstone.
A few days after I read Bryson's book, I woke at 3:30 a.m. with a scene filling my mind so completely that I was afraid it would start spilling out my nose and ears. I wrote 5,500 words before dawn, the gist of which was a boy and girl fleeing down an ash-covered Indiana highway on a bicycle. Then I put Ashfall away to gestate for eight months while I worked on a never-published young adult horror novel.
-It's Kami Garcia week at Figment! The bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novels has contributed a week of writing prompts to Daily Themes. Check out this villainous example and signup to receive the rest.
