Despite their differences, both authors agree that writing is hard work and provide a mix of inspiration and practical ...

An imagined future is supposed to tell us something about the world to come, but how we imagine it usually ends up telling us a lot more about our present than our future. Here, several different ...

Do you have an idea for a book--fiction or nonfiction--but you're not sure how to begin? Perhaps you have spent months, years, even decades imagining how you'll proceed, but something always gets in ...

LAKE TAHOE ” The Lake Tahoe Community College Library invites the public to an evening hosted by local author Todd Borg. Borg will present “The Hook, the Twist, and the Cliffhanger: How to Write What ...

Lancaster University and The Open University provide funding as founding partners of The Conversation UK. Edinburgh Napier University and University of Stirling provide funding as members of The ...

In late 2012, a New York Times op-ed column, “Has Faith Lost its Fiction?,” left more than a few people pondering the current state of Catholic arts and letters. The column, prepared by writer Paul ...

Novelist Dufresne (I Don’t Like Where This Is Going) dispenses advice on writing fiction with assurance and humor in this entertaining and informative manual. He suggests readers should not to write ...

I’ve spent my career thinking about how to tell the truth. I worked for a decade as a press critic at the Los Angeles Times, ran think tanks that study the news media and wrote a slew of books about ...

In May, top-rated online writing school The Novelry launched a groundbreaking competition, The Next Big Story, to award £75,000 to an aspiring author. The prize aims to discover the next generation of ...

A Medium.com article offered a list of the top 10 things adults would like to learn. #1? Writing. Here's a probably too-brief how-to. Fiction writing Usually, a first effort at fiction is safest if at ...