• Craft and Advice

    The Craft of Writing

    Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression

    "I want the words to erupt, the sentences to flower and the ideas to go places I hadn’t expected."

     
    By Mark Haber  October 11, 2024
    The Writing Life

    Text to Speech Troubles: Why Writers Don’t Always Make the Best Speakers

    By Kate Greathead  October 10, 2024
    Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre

    Terry J. Benton-Walker and Sarah Henning on Writing Scary Stories for Kids

    By Tor Presents: Voyage Into Genre   October 9, 2024
    Memoirs

    What the Science of Memory Can (and Can’t) Reveal about Truth in Memoir

    By Debra Nystrom  October 9, 2024
    Family Stories

    Secrets of Los Alamos: How Family Stories Can Help Inform Historical Fiction

    By Rachel Robbins  October 9, 2024
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

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

    By Teddy Wayne  October 8, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    In Conversation

    Luis Jaramillo on Creating a Multigenerational Speculative Story of the Borderlands

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 8, 2024
    The Writing Life

    On the Environmental and Philosophical Factors Behind Literary Creation

    By Steve Wasserman  October 7, 2024
    In Memoriam

    On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham

    By Elias Altman  October 7, 2024
    Craft

    Choreographing Shows and Scenes: What Dance Can Teach Fiction Writers

    Shelley Noble on Rhythm, Conveying Emotion, and Commanding the Stage in Life and Literature

    By Shelley Noble  October 11, 2024
    Write-minded

    Joshua Mohr on Getting Out of the Comfort Zone

    By Write-minded   October 7, 2024
    Graphic Memoir

    Two Apple Problem: What “Show, Don’t Tell” Means in Graphic Narratives

    By Jesse Lee Kercheval  October 4, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the Power of a Writing Partnership

    By Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser  October 4, 2024
    craft advice

    Inspiration in the Cards: How Tarot Can Help Us Narrativize Our Lives

    Chelsey Pippin Mizzi Offers Some Magical Tips For Stuck Memoirists and Essayists

    By Chelsey Pippin Mizzi  October 4, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Hate This Jerk in My Book Club: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  October 3, 2024
    In Conversation

    Trauma, Transfigured: Pascha Sotolongo on Loneliness, Latin American Lit, and the Fantastic in Fiction and Life

    By Joy Castro  October 1, 2024
    I'm a Writer But

    Nora Lange on Writing a Book She Loves

    By I'm a Writer But   October 1, 2024
    Write-minded

    Anne Lamott on How to Be Compulsively Readable

    From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

    By Write-minded   September 30, 2024
    craft advice

    What Romance Writing Shares With Sports Journalism

    By Jamie Harrow  September 27, 2024
    In Conversation

    The Surreal, Destabilizing Strangeness of Poetry: A Conversation with Michael Leong

    By Peter Mishler  September 27, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    M.L. Rio on the Connection Between Writing and Dreams

    By M.L. Rio  September 27, 2024
    craft advice

    What Fiction Writers Can Learn from Dungeons & Dragons

    Jedediah Berry on the Importance of Improvisation, Spontaneity and Play in the Creative Process

    By Jedediah Berry  September 26, 2024
    Publishing

    On the Anxiety of Finally Publishing a Book After Years of Covering Them

    By Maris Kreizman  September 26, 2024
    Trans Memoir

    I Wrote a Trans Memoir Without Even Knowing It (at First)

    By Oliver Radclyffe  September 25, 2024
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on Catching Up with the Unconscious

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 7, 2024
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