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StoryCraft

Where we discuss the making and breaking of stories and their endless forms.

YOUR VERY OWN DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS - or WHY YOU SHOULD READ BAD TO WRITE GOOD

SO MUCH OF WRITING FOR ME IS NOT LABORING TO PRODUCE GENIUS BUT FIGHTING TO PERSEVERE DESPITE THE WACKNESS OF MY OWN TALENTS

Nov 29, 2025 • Junot Díaz

MYSTERY: FICTION'S FAVORITE FORCE

To be radiant, fiction needs the canny and the uncanny. The Machine and the Spirit. Or put simply: Conflict and Mystery.

Nov 15, 2025 • Junot Díaz

BUILDING OUR STORIES THROUGH RELATIONAL FRAMES

The reason I had trouble figuring this simple problem out was that I kept coming at it as the writer, but it’s not really a problem that reveals itself…

Sep 28, 2025 • Junot Díaz

WHEN WE CONFUSE THE STEP FOR THE JOURNEY - or FINDING THE ALOFOKE FRAME OF MIND

WHEN YOU CONFUSE A STEP FOR A JOURNEY, THE STEP WILL ALMOST ALWAYS LOOK LIKE FAILURE

Sep 14, 2025 • Junot Díaz

THE WOUNDED DRAFT or MICHELANGELO'S MOLD

All books will, by their natures, resemble Emerson’s voyage of a hundred tacks and you need to be tack-wise, tack-patient, to persevere.

Aug 24, 2025 • Junot Díaz

BECOMING THE GOLD or NARRATIVE KINTSUKUROI

There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.

Aug 17, 2025 • Junot Díaz

THE SHORT STORY: A LOVE SUPREME

Compared to the novel, stories strike like life and end with its merciless abruptness

Aug 10, 2025 • Junot Díaz

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