Write By Accident, Refine By Design
In “The Accidental Novelist: How Stolen Moments Can Make a Book,” I wrote about an unorthodox writing technique I discovered — and the novel I’ve [Read More]
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FlipHTML5 Launches a Free eBook Publisher for Self-Publishing Writers
FlipHTML5 has launched a free eBook publisher that enables users to self-publish their eBooks online. FlipHTML5 has launched a free eBook publisher that is designed [Read More]
The Isolated Sentence Test: How Does Your Work Score?
There are so many things that go into writing an enjoyable book. Chief among them is the ability to make stellar word choices and form [Read More]
Easy Steps to Improve Your English Grammar
It’s important to know and use correct English grammar if you plan to speak or write the language. Communication through the internet has literally increased [Read More]
List of Writer’s Conferences in North America (Updated for 2018)
There are hundreds of writer’s conferences, workshops, and events in North America every year. All these events can be overwhelming, and it can be hard [Read More]
How to Get the Most from Writer’s Conferences: An Insider’s Guide
I went to my first writing conference as a keynote speaker. I’d already been making a full-time living as a writer for three years, and [Read More]
Listen Carefully, Book Lovers: Top Authors are Skipping Print for Audio
Successful writers like Michael Lewis, Robert Caro and Jeffery Deaver are part of a growing group of A-list authors bypassing print and releasing audiobook originals, [Read More]
How Publishing Non-Fiction Differs From Publishing Fiction
There is a lot of advice out there regarding getting your fiction published. After all, there are more people who want to write fiction. But [Read More]
Podcasts for Writers (Video)
Recommendations for podcasts suitable for writers. see more at youtube.com
Top 99 Creative Writing Blogs
From poetry to lengthy prose, creative writing classes in an online English degree can be a great way to express yourself. Of course, even the [Read More]
Murder Mystery Author Jane Harper Has Six Tips for Writing a Bestselling Novel
It’s the kind of success story writers dream of. In 2014, Jane Harper decided she was finally going to do it — she was going [Read More]
TV Writers Explain the Challenges of Adapting Classic Novels to TV
FIRST IMPRESSIONS I first read the book when I was 17 years old, and I remember little else of that year besides the transformative experience of [Read More]
Catching Up With the Next Generation of Sci-Fi Writers
Fandom as a familial collective of readers and writers has existed since at least the 1920s, when lurid pulp fiction magazines encouraged Lovecraft’s quirky circle [Read More]
Salaried Author Positions Might Get Your Book off the Ground
A new publishing company thinks it might have found a way to encourage the next generation of novel writers to ditch the day jobs and [Read More]
You Cannot be ‘Well Read’ Without Reading Women
This week, a bookseller working at Waterstones in Uxbridge said on social media that, while they had never had a female customer say “I don’t [Read More]
Simply Getting Outside is the Most Effective Way to Get Creative
We spend our lives looking at the world through screens: TVs, computers, windows in houses and cars and buses and through these screens it’s like [Read More]
A French-Rwandan Rap Star Turned Novelist From Burundi
PARIS — “It felt like an injustice to me,” said the rapper and novelist Gaël Faye, about having to leave civil-war-torn Burundi in 1995 to [Read More]
Bill Clinton, James Patterson Team Up in New Thriller Novel
In what is going to mark the debut of former US President Bill Clinton as a fiction writer, he has teamed up with James Patterson [Read More]
Wearing Glasses May Really Mean You’re Smarter, Major Study Finds
It’s not just a pop culture trope – a University of Edinburgh study has found intelligent people are 30% more likely to have genes related [Read More]
How to Use Free Online Tools to Write Better Content
It’s all well and good scanning blog post after blog post in search of content writing tips, but sometimes you want instant, actionable tactics you [Read More]
How to Network Better by Saying Less
When I was growing up, my mother often repeated the adage “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove [Read More]