The Craft of Writing

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

 
By Jonathan Lee  May 13, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Vauhini Vara on Keeping a Long Writing Project Alive

By Vauhini Vara  May 6, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

By Alexander Chee  April 29, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Anna Quindlen on the Power of Writing by Hand

By Anna Quindlen  April 22, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Liana Finck on How to Write Like a Cartoonist

By Liana Finck  April 15, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Ocean Vuong on Taking the Time You Need to Write

By Literary Hub  April 8, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan

By Aimee Bender  April 1, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Melissa Febos on Writing About Sex

By Melissa Febos  March 25, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Garth Greenwell on Writing Fiction like a Poet

By Garth Greenwell  March 18, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Edith Wharton on How to Write a Vivid First Line

By Edith Wharton  March 11, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Having Trouble With Novel Structure? Look at It Like a Mixtape

By Mesha Maren  March 4, 2022
The Craft of Writing

George Saunders on Overcoming Uncertainty in Writing

By George Saunders  February 25, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Chuck Klosterman on Writing Criticism for a Wide Audience

By Chuck Klosterman  February 11, 2022
Historical Fiction

Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life

By Amor Towles  February 4, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Maeve Higgins on How to Write with Humor

By Maeve Higgins  January 28, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Annie Dillard on How Writers Learn to Trust Instinct

By Annie Dillard  January 14, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Mayukh Sen on Writing About Food—With Feeling

By Mayukh Sen  January 7, 2022
The Craft of Writing

On the Political Meaning of the Road Narrative

By Tiphanie Yanique  January 3, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Nikita Lalwani on the Art of Eavesdropping

By Nikita Lalwani  December 23, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Tiphanie Yanique on Breaking the Rules of Form

By Tiphanie Yanique  December 17, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Cara Blue Adams on How to Build a Short Story Collection

By Cara Blue Adams  December 10, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Lydia Davis on How Translation Opens a Writer’s Mind

By Lydia Davis  December 3, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

By Kyle Lucia Wu  November 12, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
The Craft of Writing

Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

By Craig Davidson  October 22, 2021
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