Archive - Craft by Vera Kurian

January 2025

How can you focus when you're feeling evaluated?

Schrödinger's garbage book

Jan 28 •

High concept characters

CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.

Jan 21 •

Repost: No character is an island

Writing the 4th dimension of characters

Jan 14 •

Are craft books crafty enough?

CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.

Jan 7 •

December 2024

Are your fictional friends cutting it?

CRAFT is a reader-supported email newsletter about the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and the world of publishing.

Dec 31, 2024 •

Repost: Should the literary community still be using trigger warnings?

Science. I promise this is not a tired trigger warning article

Dec 24, 2024 •

Sympathy for the devil

why do we like some characters when we shouldn't?

Dec 17, 2024 •

A year in the life of a semi-professional writer

plus some $$$ talk

Dec 10, 2024 •

If this winter feels dark

don't commit to depression

Dec 3, 2024 •

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