The Inner Loop Radio

Use space to discover the world right outside your window, but also spacial editing to revise what you’ve written with fiction writer Melissa Scholes Young in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Unearth bits of joy with Cija Jefferson, nonfiction writer and host of Writers and Words, a Baltimore reading series. Cija invites us to find joy in emulating our favorite author, and she offers a few reading recommendations by contemporary black female authors in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so wri...

Fiction writer and Director of Communications at The Writer’s Center, Zach Powers, encourages us to focus on how we use word choice and syntax to build tension in a scene, as well as how both writing and reading habits can keep us sane in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing thro...

As writers, we can get so bogged down in trying to convey figurative feeling that we forget about the magic that can be found in literal feeling. Join Co-Host and TIL Co-Founder Courtney Sexton as she tries to reach out and touch something small to trigger something big -- in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and pr...

Those places where we get stuck in our writing are where we can find the most fruitful growth. Executive Producer Rachel Coonce shows us how to push through the discomfort, accept failure, and find the sun in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

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...

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.