Tenacity, the Key to the Writing Life

Tenacity, the Key to the Writing Life

Teow Lim Goh on Working Through the Rough Patches

By Teow Lim Goh | January 19, 2017

What Writing a Serial Killer Taught Me About Accepting the Unacceptable

What Writing a Serial Killer Taught Me About Accepting the Unacceptable

On Ideological Purity and a Pragmatism of Hope

By Dan Lopez | January 19, 2017

On the Use of Sensitivity Readers in Publishing

On the Use of Sensitivity Readers in Publishing

A Writer, Reader, and Publisher Weigh In

By Christine Ro | January 18, 2017

What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing

What Being an Editor Taught Me About Writing

Anna Pitoniak on the Inside Tricks of the Trade

By Anna Pitoniak | January 17, 2017

The Unbearable Niceness of Being

The Unbearable Niceness of Being

On Niceness in Publishing and Why We Should Ask Men to Do Better

By Alana Massey | January 13, 2017

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

When You Name Your Fictional War Criminal After a Real Man By Accident

David Savill on Trauma, History, and the Precarity of Naming

By David Savill | January 13, 2017

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When Writing Becomes Just Another Lifestyle Good

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How Art Can Defeat Boredom and Loneliness

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On Selling Your First Novel After 11 Years

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12 Contemporary Writers on How They Revise

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How Faulkner Convinced Me Not to Become an Astronomer

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Alan Jacobs on a House Full of Books and How He Came to Literature

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How to Build a Powerful Community of Brown Female Voices

How to Build a Powerful Community of Brown Female Voices

Piyali Bhattachayra on Good Girls Marry Doctors and creating her tribe

By Piyali Bhattacharya | January 5, 2017

Why Every Aspiring Writer Should Go See <em>Paterson</em>

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Indulge in a rare bit of artistic realism

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Letters from an Invented Writer

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A Selection of Correspondence Between 'James Tiptree, Jr.' and Joanna Russ

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What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

What Romance Fiction Can Accomplish

On the Passion and Pleasure of "Light" Reading

By Cathy Maxwell | December 29, 2016

Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Working Your Way Through Depression to Finish a Book

Jason Diamond on the Importance of Work, and the Struggle to Write

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