• Craft and Advice

    Writing Advice

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

    By Walter Mosley  September 5, 2019
    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
    Punctuation

    The Virtues of the Semicolon; or, Rebellious Punctuation

    By Cecelia Watson  August 29, 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

    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

    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

    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
    Comedy

    When Novelists Become Method Actors

    By Leland Cheuk  July 31, 2019
    Working Women

    The Late-Capitalist Privileges of
    Being an Art Monster

    By Sarah Elaine Smith  July 31, 2019
    Writing Strategies

    On Learning to Use My Inner Cheerleader to Find Writerly Confidence

    By Liz Astrof  July 30, 2019
    Writing Women

    Learning How to Write Girls with Agency in Fiction

    By Stephanie Jimenez  July 29, 2019
    Reading

    Why Don’t I Read All My Books?

    By Karen Olsson  July 26, 2019
    Family History

    In the Woods: Telling the Finnish-American Immigrant Story

    By Karl Marlantes  July 23, 2019
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