Craft and Advice

Myth

The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

Kassandra Montag on Learning to Write Blunt, Unabashed Characters

 
By Kassandra Montag  September 13, 2019
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne  September 10, 2019
Self-Publishing

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Too

By Nick Ripatrazone  September 9, 2019
Craft and Criticism

What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

By Lynn Steger Strong  September 6, 2019
Self-Reflection

On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

By Elizabeth Ames  September 5, 2019
Writing Advice

Walter Mosley on Discovering Who Your Book’s Characters Really Are

By Walter Mosley  September 5, 2019
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Grammar

Good Sentences Are Why
We Read

By Joe Moran  August 30, 2019
New in Nonfiction

Designing Your Grandfather’s Book (When He’s James Thurber)

By Sara T. Sauers  August 30, 2019
Criticism

Where the Amateur Reader Ends, and the Professional Critic Begins

By Tom Lutz  August 30, 2019
5 Questions

Emma Donoghue on Hamilton, Writer’s Block, and Giving Up on War and Peace

5 Questions for the Author of Room and Akin

By Literary Hub  September 11, 2019
Writing Advice

Bob Eckstein Draws His Way Through the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference

By Bob Eckstein  August 29, 2019
Language

On the Politics of Italics

By Jumoke Verissimo  August 28, 2019
Tarot

Why Are Writers Particularly
Drawn to Tarot?

By Rochelle Spencer  August 27, 2019
Drafts

Susan Steinberg on the Value of Writing an Ugly Draft

The Author of Machine in Conversation About Craft with Diane Cook

By Diane Cook  August 23, 2019
On Poetry

Why Do I Recite the Same Paul Celan Poem to All My Dates?

By Sara Martin  August 22, 2019
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Writers, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

By Teddy Wayne  August 13, 2019
Grammar

38 Americanisms the British Can’t Bloody Stand

By Gyles Brandreth  August 12, 2019
Writing Advice

Why You Should Write About Your Characters at Work

Jason Allen Explains How His Worst Jobs Shaped Him as a Writer

By Jason Allen  August 9, 2019
Historical Fiction

On the Anxiety of Writing Historical Fiction: A User’s Manual

By Caitlin Horrocks  August 9, 2019
Climate Change

Romanticizing Mount Everest Misses the Real Story

By Adam Popescu  August 9, 2019
Writing Advice

“The Greatest Menace to the Writer is the Reader” and Other Advice from Shirley Jackson

By Emily Temple  August 8, 2019
Writing Real People

The Hate Mail I Got When I Wrote About My Hometown in Upstate New York

Brock Clarke On Capturing the Messy, Individual Voices of Little Falls

By Brock Clarke  August 8, 2019
Advice

“You Don’t Know Anything.” And Other Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

By Emily Temple  August 6, 2019
Faith

On the Pitfalls and Power of
the Religious Essay

By Sonja Livingston  August 5, 2019
Punctuation

The Virtues of the Semicolon; or, Rebellious Punctuation

By Cecelia Watson  August 29, 2019
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