The problem with finishing any great story is just that -the story is over. Just when you’ve found yourself completely caught up in the character’s lives and sincerely invested in what happens to them, the author has to go and ruin everything by wrapping it all up. 
Well the time has come to take matters into [...]

The current economy may be affecting our lives in a number of negative ways, but isn’t it possible that something good (or least interesting) can come from all this? Inspired by the unexpected outpouring of creative work that followed the Great Depression, First Person Arts has announced the In These Hard Times Contest: an open [...]

So you’ve already spilled your guts and told us all about your ex, but still feel you’ve got some relationship demons to exercise? Why not head over to Why My Ex Sucks and submit your story. WMES is currently looking for submissions of three reasons why your former significant other sucked and how they had [...]

It’s a phenomenon we can all relate to: You go out for drinks with some friends and everyone is having a great time. As the night progresses and more drinks are consumed, you start to think about all of your friends who are not present and all the things that you need to say to [...]

When Huffington Post blogger Susanna Speier decided on a whim to start writing Haikus about current political events (a feature she dubbed “Politiku”), she didn’t expect to start an internet sensation. However, shortly after she began the project during the 2008 Democratic National Convention, her usually low-traffic personal blog blew up and she knew she was [...]

Frontline’s Digital Nation is a multiplatform project that aims to “capture life on the digital frontier” by exploring the use of technology and how it effects our day to day lives. Part of the project is a feature where visitors to the Digital Nation site are invited to submit videos that discuss the role technology [...]

In these tough economic times, it’s important to find constructive ways of dealing with our somewhat bleak situation. Once again to the rescue: our old friend storytelling.
The Breadline, a new blog by David Kamp and Lawrence Levi, is designed to create a sense of community in the current bleak economic landscape. It’s a “sort [...]

It goes without saying that love is complicated. Regardless of whether it seems like an unending marathon of romantic bliss or doomed from the start, you can rest assured that, for better or worse, it’s going to get interesting. 
Our friends over at Salon are currently running an awesome new bi-weekly feature titled Americans Talk About Love [...]

In modern society, a pretty decent amount of our flirting takes place in the form of cell phone messages. Whether it be in the form of text, photo or video, cell phones provide a low-stakes medium for proposition each other without running the risk of being called a pervert to your face. But what do [...]

With each trip we take we’re building our personal story library. And if anything beats a good travel story, it’s total disaster travel story. The kind where things went so spectacularly awry that it seems as if there is no way it could have actually happened–only it did.
The Accidental Extremist is a place to share [...]