Our special series of mini-episodes with different writers who take over the show to offer us a little dose of inspiration.

Inspiration Series

Join Executive Producer and Co-Host Rachel Coonce for the first installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series. These weekly mini-episodes offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Get writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt with each episode. Rachel talks about moving through negativity to access creativity, and she prepares for a trip in her prompt.

Negativity To Creativity With Rachel Coonce

Join Co-Host Courtney Sexton for the second installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Get writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt with each episode. Courtney has some inspiring book recommendations, and then she takes us to the lighthouse, and then back again, and then again.

Take It Back, Make It Shorter With Courtney Sexton

The Inner Loop Radio Intern Abi Newhouse takes us to Utah to reimagine a family conflict in her autofiction prompt for the third installment of our Quarantine Inspiration Series, our weekly mini-episodes that offer motivation for writers to keep writing through difficult times. Abi offers up more reading recommendations, and she encourages us to explore new territory, both physically and mentally.

Autofiction With Abi Newhouse

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.

Lingering In The Mundane With Kiera Wolfe

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!

Perspective With Dan Knowlton

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 through difficult times.

The How Instead Of The What With Zach Powers

Rachel Coonce and Courtney Sexton bring you creative writing inspiration, literature and craft discussions, and commiseration on the writing life with interviews, inspiration takeovers, and chats with poets and authors of fiction and nonfiction.

The How Instead Of The What With Zach Powers

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