On November 1st, hundreds of thousands of people around the world will suddenly start crouching over their laptops, keyboards, notebooks, journals and tablets as they try to destroy and rebuild ...

Here in the muddy middle is where confidence erodes, not because the writer lacks ability but because the process becomes complex.

Writing a book sounds exciting until you’re staring at a blank page and watching the cursor blink until your eyes glaze over.

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - If you’ve ever thought about writing a novel, the Topeka and Shawnee Co. Public Library has a way to help you jump start the process. TSCPL’s Lissa Staley visited Eye on NE ...

Every time I turn around, Jami Attenberg has published another novel or memoir. But I do not begrudge her this, because I know how she does it. For years, Jami has enlisted conspirators in writing a ...

There are generally two times of the year that writers set goals: New Year’s and NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). But if you really want to be successful, you should constantly set new ...

Books are getting longer. Some surveys have suggested that the word count for novels has doubled since the 1900s. Case in point, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy maxes out at 455,125 words, while "A ...

50K May urges you to sit down and commit 50,000 words to a new writing project by the end of the month. For those that have ...

Here are two words that might make you swoon with longing or simmer with envy: book leave. In an ideal book leave, a person would get paid well enough (from a big old book advance?) to take unpaid ...

Why the latest literary trend favors short, punchy prose over epics. Novelists Anika Jade Levy and Jenny Offill weigh in.